DFDL-aware text editor?

["Costello, Roger L." <co...@mitre.org>]

Hello DFDL community,

When is someone going to create a DFDL-aware text editor?

/Roger

Re: DFDL-aware text editor?

["Beckerle, Mike" <mb...@tresys.com>]

IBM's DFDL product does contain such an editor.


For Daffodil, the best we have at the moment is Eclipse, which can be setup so that you get content-assist for authoring DFDL schemas much as you would for authoring any XML document where there is an XML schema. Setting this up is a pain, and you basically have to turn-off support for XML Schema authoring and convince Eclipse that a ".dfdl.xsd" file is ordinary XML.


I believe this could be improved upon, but that is what we have so far.


There has been a desire for a "Data Format Debugger" that would enable interactive development of DFDL schemas by allowing viewing of parsed and unparsed data simultaneously while editing a schema. This would want to be informed by a bunch of heuristics that examine data and suggest basic properties like charset encoding.


I don't know of anyone actively working on such things. Doesn't mean nobody is doing it though.



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From: Costello, Roger L. <co...@mitre.org>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 11:21:51 AM
To: users@daffodil.apache.org <us...@daffodil.apache.org>
Subject: DFDL-aware text editor?

Hello DFDL community,

When is someone going to create a DFDL-aware text editor?

/Roger