For fixed length, you want to use textTrimKind and textPadKind 'padCharacter'. The textStringPadCharacter should probably be %SP; and textStringJustification 'left'.
Then your enumeration stays as is. The length 6 and pad trim issues are part of the format, not the logical data model. Il Ven 5 Ago 2022, 2:19 PM Roger L Costello <coste...@mitre.org> ha scritto: > Hi Folks, > > I have a field that is of fixed length (6). There is an existing XSD with > an enumeration list of values that can go in the field: > > <element name="foo"> > <simpleType> > <restriction base="string"> > <enumeration value="abc"> > <enumeration value="abcdef"> > <enumeration value="abcd"> > </restriction> > </simpleType> > </element> > > Notice that some of the enumeration values are less than the required 6 > characters. > > What is the easiest way to handle that situation? Is it: > > (a) Go through each enumeration value and pad the value with spaces if > it's not of the required length? > > (b) Something else (what?) > > Note: I plan to use the "-V limited" option to check the field. > > /Roger >
