dfdl:textPadKind determines how padding is added during unparsing. dfdl:textTrimKind determines how padding is removed during parsing.
So you need textTrimKind. Adding dfdl:textTrimKind="padChar" to the name element should get you the behavior you're looking for. - Steve On 5/15/20 7:32 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My input contains a person's name. The name is padded on the left and right > with the forward slash ( / ) symbol, e.g. > > ///John/// > > I used textPadKind="padChar" and textStringPadCharacter="/" to direct > Daffodil to remove the forward slashes: > > <xs:element name="SimpleDataFormat"> > <xs:complexType> > <xs:sequence> > <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string" > dfdl:textPadKind="padChar" > dfdl:textStringPadCharacter="/" > /> > </xs:sequence> > </xs:complexType> > </xs:element> > > Unfortunately, no slashes are removed: > > <SimpleDataFormat> > <name>///John///</name> > </SimpleDataFormat> > > Below is my complete schema. What am I doing wrong, please? /Roger > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > xmlns:dfdl="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/dfdl-1.0/"; > xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions"; > elementFormDefault="qualified"> > > <xs:annotation> > <xs:appinfo source="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/";> > <dfdl:format > textBidi="no" > separatorSuppressionPolicy="never" > floating="no" > encodingErrorPolicy="replace" > outputNewLine="%CR;%LF;" > leadingSkip="0" > trailingSkip="0" > alignment="1" > alignmentUnits="bytes" > textPadKind="none" > textTrimKind="none" > truncateSpecifiedLengthString="no" > escapeSchemeRef="" > > representation="text" > encoding="ASCII" > lengthKind = "delimited" > initiator = "" > terminator = "" > separator = "" > ignoreCase = "yes" > sequenceKind="ordered" > initiatedContent="no" > lengthUnits="characters" > textStringJustification="center" > > /> > </xs:appinfo> > </xs:annotation> > > <xs:element name="SimpleDataFormat"> > <xs:complexType> > <xs:sequence> > <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string" > dfdl:textPadKind="padChar" > dfdl:textStringPadCharacter="/" > /> > </xs:sequence> > </xs:complexType> > </xs:element> > > </xs:schema> >
