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rekarm01
PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 5:38 pm    Post subject: DFDL modeling elements with unknown names Reply with quote

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Given a (simplified) sample message like:

Code:
Prop1=Val1
Prop2=Val2
Prop3=Val3
...

To preserve backwards compatibility with existing usage, I want the parsed tree structure to look something like:

Code:
<Prop1>Val1</Prop1>
<Prop2>Val2</Prop2>
<Prop3>Val3</Prop3>
...

except that the names of the elements aren't necessarily known in advance, so I can't enumerate them in the DFDL schema. I tried using regular expressions with dfdl:lengthPattern, something like:

Code:
<xsd:element dfdl:lengthKind="pattern" dfdl:lengthPattern="[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]+" name="???" ... >

but that seems more useful for setting the value of an element, rather than the name. I also tried using dfdl:initiator to set the value for a dfdl variable, something like:

Code:
<xsd:element dfdl:initiator="[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]+" name="{$elemName}" ... >

but couldn't quite figure out how to both set and use a dfdl variable within the scope of the same element.

How can DFDL model elements like this, where the names of the elements are provided in the data?
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timber
PostPosted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 2:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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One of the rules of DFDL is that the element names must be known in advance. Supporting XML Schema wildcards (xs:any, abstract types etc) would have been extremely difficult to specify properly, and would be used very rarely.

I would model your format like this:
Code:
message
  sequence delimiter=%NL;
    field maxOccurs=unbounded
      sequence delimiter='='
        fieldName
        fieldValue

Not exactly the XML structure that you were aiming for, but it would be simple to restructure the message tree if that matters.
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rekarm01
PostPosted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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timber wrote:
One of the rules of DFDL is that the element names must be known in advance.

I suspected that, but I wasn't sure.

timber wrote:
I would model your format like this ... Not exactly the XML structure that you were aiming for, ...

Not exactly, no, but it seems like the best available option. Thanks for your help.
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