<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Mike</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">%NL; is a single character <LF>
on those target platforms where that is the convention or <CR><LF>
on others, etc. This is intended to make it easier for the same dfdl schema
to parse messages from different platforms. I know we avoided target platform
in DFDL and was expecting that this would cause some debate.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This will be a good discussion for tomorrow's
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">RE: [DFDL-WG] Action 14: Propose DFDL
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<br><font size=2 color=#004080 face="sans-serif">Is the &NL; supposed
to represent a single character? Or can it be a CRLF?</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=#004080 face="sans-serif">There’s no notion of
“the target platform” in DFDL. We’ve specifically avoided this notion
on purpose. So we need a separate property like newline=”&CR;&LF;”
or newline=”&LF;” if we want &NL; to be meaningful, unless some
other property is suitable.</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=#004080 face="sans-serif">There are some other Unicode
whitespace and Unicode line-ending characters. Do we want to include those
in the definitions of WSP and NL ? I recall there are 4 line-endings in
Unicode.</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=#004080 face="sans-serif">…mikeb</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alan Powell<b><br>
Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:32 AM<b><br>
To:</b> DFDL-Technical-Core%IBMGB@uk.ibm.com; dfdl-wg@ogf.org<b><br>
Subject:</b> Re: [DFDL-WG] Action 14: Propose DFDL entity scheme</font>
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All</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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Attached is the latest proposal for DFDL 'entities'</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
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The main changes are:</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=2 face="Arial"><br>
- No longer using XML entities as this proved to not meet all the requirements</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
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- New generic mnemonics for <NL> and others to represent the NL on
the target platform.</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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Alan Powell<br>
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MP 211, IBM UK Labs, Hursley, Winchester, SO21 2JN, England<br>
Notes Id: Alan Powell/UK/IBM email: alan_powell@uk.ibm.com
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Tel: +44 (0)1962 815073
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