Thanks Steve.

Is there a workaround? I need the output of unparsing to exactly match the 
original input.

/Roger


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lawrence <slawre...@apache.org> 
Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 10:45 AM
To: users@daffodil.apache.org; Costello, Roger L. <coste...@mitre.org>
Subject: [EXT] Re: Bug in Daffodil?

This is actually the expected behavior, though it's maybe not always desired.

The issue here is that XML is not allowed to contain CR's, only LF's are 
allowed. So when we output infoset data, all CRLF's are converted to LF, and 
any lone CR's are also converted to LF. Unfortunately, if your data fields 
contains a CR, it's going to get lost. In a lot of cases this is fine, since 
lots of formats don't care about CRLF vs LF. But there are definitely some 
places where it matters.

DAFFODIL-1559 [1] is the issue to allowing changing this behavior. One option 
would be to convert CR character in the data to a private use area like we do 
with other illegal XML characters, but that makes the infoset less useful. 
Another option might be to say that whenever an LF appears in the data, we just 
always unparse it as a CRLF. This means if your data mixes CRLF and LF, we'd 
always output CRLF, but that's probably not a big deal if mixing is allowed in 
the format.

- Steve

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-1559

On 4/5/19 9:25 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hello DFDL community,
> 
> My input file consists of a prolog of known format and a payload 
> surrounded by parentheses. The payload consists of a series of text 
> fields separated by hyphens. In some cases, the hyphen can be preceded 
> by a new line, which can be a carriage return or CRLF combination.
> 
> Here is a sample input file; I show it in a hex editor so you can see 
> that some hyphens are preceded by CRLF and others by just a CR.
> 
> Here is my DFDL schema:
> 
> <xs:elementname="input">
> <xs:complexType>
> <xs:sequence>
> <xs:elementname="prolog"type="xs:string"dfdl:terminator="%NL;"/>
> <xs:elementname="payload"dfdl:initiator="("dfdl:terminator=")">
> <xs:complexType>
> <xs:sequencedfdl:separator="-"dfdl:separatorPosition="infix">
> <xs:elementname="field"type="xs:string"maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> </xs:sequence>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> </xs:sequence>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> 
> When I parse the input file using the DFDL schema, I get this XML:
> 
> <input>
> <prolog>PROLOG</prolog>
> <payload>
> <field>A</field>
> <field>B</field>
> <field>C
> </field>
> <field>D</field>
> <field>E
> </field>
> <field>F</field>
> </payload>
> </input>
> 
> That's perfect.
> 
> When I unparse the XML I get this (please note the bug (?) described in 
> yellow):
> 

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