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Textual and Text Representation - do delimiters have text representation?
Added by Michael Beckerle about 9 years ago
Textual, Text Representation - we are unclear about text representation and what it means.
It is not only about elements with types. A binary element can have an initiator, and that part of the element's representation has text representation, or is textual (unless specified only using raw-bytes).
Sometimes when we discuss textual data we're talking about delimiters, or data that is being interpreted as text by a regex, regardless of what it actually is.
There are really several different kinds of usage here. Textual means - is being interpreted as text characters, and little more.
Simple type elements that are strings, or have dfdl:representation='text' is only one case of this.
So do delimiters have text representation, or is that terminology only about elements?
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RE: Textual and Text Representation - do delimiters have text representation? - Added by Michael Beckerle about 9 years ago
Suggest these changes:
Mention property dfdl:encoding in glossary entry for 'Text'.
Change uses of 'text representation' in the spec if they are discussing delimiters. Change to 'textual data' or similar.
Resolved RE: Textual and Text Representation - do delimiters have text representation? - Added by Michael Beckerle about 9 years ago
Make changes per prior comment.
Make sure definition of text representation talks specifically about content region.
RE: Textual and Text Representation - do delimiters have text representation? - Added by Steve Hanson over 8 years ago
New erratum 4.17 in experience document 1.
Note that there is only one place in the spec where 'text representation' is mis-used.
Resolved: Textual and Text Representation - do delimiters have text representation? - Added by Steve Hanson over 8 years ago
Mark resolved
DONE - RE: Textual and Text Representation - do delimiters have text representation? - Added by Michael Beckerle over 8 years ago
Changes in draft-gwdrp-dfdl-v1.0.4-r06.docx
DONE - RE: Textual and Text Representation - do delimiters have text representation? - Added by Steve Hanson about 8 years ago
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