Hi Davin, > The original format appears to be a fixed-length fielded text format.
Yes. The input has 2,871,210 lines and each line is exactly 132 characters long. > I'd be curious to see a a sample record or two of the original data. Sorry, I can't do that (it is proprietary data). > Does the unparse generate identical data (byte for byte) compared to the > original data? Yes. > Can you give us details on how the unparse works Not much to say. Parsing generated the XML. Then I fed the XML back into Daffodil, along with my DFDL schema and out popped the reconstituted input file! > I really appreciate these success stories and they way you narrate them. The > images help to tell the story also. Thank you for the kind words! /Roger