This is bug https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-2345 open since Daffodil 2.6.0.
I bumped up the priority, and assigned it (wishfully) to the next release (3.7.0). On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 9:08 AM Roger L Costello <coste...@mitre.org> wrote: > I have input containing a series of lines separated by newlines. Each line > contains fields separated by slashes. Here is a sample input: > > > > .../24L-36R/... > .../24L /... > .../ - /... > > > > Actually, I got the input from a Word document, i.e., I copied from Word > and pasted into a .txt file. Here’s what I pasted: > > > > …/24L-36R/… > …/24L /… > …/ - /… > > > > Eek! See the problem? (I didn’t see the problem for a long time) Instead > of the first and third fields containing three dots, they contain the > Microsoft ellipses symbol. Okay, my bad. Nonetheless, I expect Daffodil to > tell me that I have bogus symbols in the input. But Daffodil doesn’t do > that. Daffodil sent me on a wild goose chase. Daffodil gave this error > message: > > > > *[error] Parse Error: Failed to populate Line[1]. Cause: Parse Error: > Failed to parse infix separator. Cause: Parse Error: Found out of scope > delimiter: '%NL;' '?'* > > > > *That is a horrible error message!* It is completely misleading. > Completely wrong. I spent a huge amount of time trying to understand, “*How > in the world is the newline separator out of scope*?” > > > > Can this be fixed please? I.e., can Daffodil provide a more useful error > message please? > > > > Here is an excerpt from my DFDL schema: > > > > <xs:element name="Test"> > <xs:complexType> > <xs:sequence dfdl:separator="%NL;" dfdl:separatorPosition= > "infix"> > <xs:element name="Line" maxOccurs="unbounded"> > <xs:complexType> > <xs:sequence dfdl:separator="/" > dfdl:separatorPosition="infix"> > <xs:element name="A" type="xs:string" /> > <xs:element ref="RunwayDesignator" > dfdl:lengthKind="explicit" > dfdl:length="7"/> > <xs:element name="B" type="xs:string" /> > </xs:sequence> > </xs:complexType> > </xs:element> > </xs:sequence> > </xs:complexType> > </xs:element> > > >
