Hi Steve,
Here are my default properties:
<dfdl:format
alignment="1"
alignmentUnits="bytes"
binaryFloatRep="ieee"
binaryNumberRep="binary"
bitOrder="mostSignificantBitFirst"
byteOrder="bigEndian"
calendarPatternKind="implicit"
choiceLengthKind="implicit"
documentFinalTerminatorCanBeMissing="yes"
emptyValueDelimiterPolicy="none"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"
encodingErrorPolicy="replace"
escapeSchemeRef=""
fillByte="f"
floating="no"
ignoreCase="no"
initiator=""
initiatedContent="no"
leadingSkip="0"
lengthKind="delimited"
lengthUnits="characters"
nilKind="literalValue"
nilValueDelimiterPolicy="none"
occursCountKind="implicit"
outputNewLine="%CR;%LF;"
representation="text"
separator=""
separatorPosition="infix"
separatorSuppressionPolicy="anyEmpty"
sequenceKind="ordered"
terminator=""
textBidi="no"
textNumberCheckPolicy="strict"
textNumberPattern="#,##0.###;-#,##0.###"
textNumberRep="standard"
textNumberRounding="explicit"
textNumberRoundingIncrement="0"
textNumberRoundingMode="roundUnnecessary"
textOutputMinLength="0"
textPadKind="none"
textStandardBase="10"
textStandardDecimalSeparator="."
textStandardExponentRep="E"
textStandardInfinityRep="Inf"
textStandardNaNRep="NaN"
textStandardZeroRep="0"
textStandardGroupingSeparator=","
textTrimKind="none"
trailingSkip="0"
truncateSpecifiedLengthString="no"
utf16Width="fixed"
/>
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lawrence <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 12:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXT] Re: Trying to understand lengthKind="prefixed"
Works for me, so I'd guess this has something to do with a property in
dfdl:format. I'm not sure what property could lead to that output though.
Can you provide the rest of the schema with the dfdl:format?
On 8/27/19 11:54 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hello DFDL community,
>
> I believe that lengthKind="prefixed" is used when the input data is
> prefixed by an integer which indicates the length of the data. For
> example, below the data is the string ABC and it is prefixed by the
> integer 3
>
> 3ABC
>
> The 3 indicates that the length of the following data is 3 characters.
>
> Do I understand correctly the purpose of lengthKind="prefixed"?
>
> Assuming I understand its purpose correctly, why is this DFDL schema failing:
>
> <xs:elementname="D"type="xs:string"
> dfdl:lengthKind="prefixed"
> dfdl:prefixLengthType="D-type"
> dfdl:prefixIncludesPrefixLength="no"/>
>
> <xs:simpleTypename="D-type"
> dfdl:lengthKind="explicit"
> dfdl:length="1">
> <xs:restrictionbase="xs:integer"/>
> </xs:simpleType>
>
> Here is the error message that I get:
>
> *[error] Parse Error: Convert to Unlimited Size Integer (for
> xs:integer): Unable to parse 'B' (using up all characters).*
>
> What am I doing wrong, please?
>
> /Roger
>
