re: "...I hope that helps." Very much so. :)
On review, I came upon section "6.3.1 DFDLString Literals <https://daffodil.apache.org/docs/dfdl/#_Toc62570072>" in Daffodil spec. after the fact which elaborates on your response. Mastering navigation of documents/examples to answer questions for the 'uninitiated' is the challenge. Thx Mike Attila On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 4:48 PM Beckerle, Mike < mbecke...@owlcyberdefense.com> wrote: > You can do dfdl:separator="%#x02;" or even dfdl:separator="%STX;" (Section > 6.3.1.2 Table 4 DFDL Entities) > > The "%" introduces a DFDL-specific character entity. > > I generally recommened people use the DFDL "%" instead of the XML "&" > > You are only stuck with dealing with the E000 stuff when those control > characters appear in the values of elements. Delimiters that are explicit > in the DFDL schema aren't part of the infoset, (they won't show up in your > XML) so none of the E000 remapping occurs for those strings. > > I hope that helps. > > -mike beckerle > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Attila Horvath <attila.j.horv...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:56 PM > *To:* users@daffodil.apache.org <users@daffodil.apache.org> > *Subject:* CSV - hex char separator? > > If I have a Character Separated Value [CSV] file, where the character is > any 7 bit hexadecimal character instead of simply 'comma' separated - eg: > STX [0x02], > how can that be specified in a '<xs:sequence dfdl:separator="..."' > attribute? > > I tried '<xs:sequence dfdl:separator=""'. Syntactically it is > correct but daffodil is not recognizing the STX [0x02] character as a field > delimiter. > > [image: image.png] > > Thx in advance, > > Attila >
