document #178
Are there special circumstances where WSP* should be allowed even when ES is not allowed?
| Status: | closed | Start date: | 09/25/2013 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | Steve Hanson | % Done: | 100% |
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| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Document Type: | Proposed Recommendation |
Description
Does it ever make sense to allow WSP* as a terminator in non-delimited scenarios? IBM DFDL has some test cases that exploit this, and at least one IBM end user has used WSP* in a list of values to model an optional terminator. WTX allows their equivalent <OWSP> entity to be used on its own, but say that their "stopping syntax" does not look for "nothing" so actual white space would need to be present - in other words its the same as if <WSP> had been used. Need to consider whether not allowing WSP* makes a conceptually simple format hard to model as regular expressions etc need to be resorted to.
History
Updated by Steve Hanson about 8 years ago
- Status changed from public comment to closed
- Assignee set to Steve Hanson
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
See http://redmine.ogf.org/boards/15/topics/40
Erratum 2.148 updated. GWD.207 updated.
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