I recommend renaming the "ignoreCase" DFDL property

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

Hi Folks,

Suppose that a data format has this separator: sep

Specifying the data format requires us to specify whether the case of the separator matters. 

XML Schema is a declarative language. DFDL is also intended to be declarative.

I looked up "ignore" in a dictionary. The dictionary says that "ignore" is a verb.

I assert that declarative languages should avoid verbs.

Instead of "ignoreCase" I believe that "caseSensitive" would be a better name for the property.

caseSensitive :: yes | no

In the next version of Daffodil, can you allow schemas to use "caseSensitive" rather than "ignoreCase" please?

/Roger

Re: I recommend renaming the "ignoreCase" DFDL property

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

I created a DFDL Workgroup tracker for these suggestions:

https://redmine.ogf.org/issues/362

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From: Costello, Roger L. <co...@mitre.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:42 AM
To: users@daffodil.apache.org <us...@daffodil.apache.org>
Subject: I recommend renaming the "ignoreCase" DFDL property

Hi Folks,

Suppose that a data format has this separator: sep

Specifying the data format requires us to specify whether the case of the separator matters.

XML Schema is a declarative language. DFDL is also intended to be declarative.

I looked up "ignore" in a dictionary. The dictionary says that "ignore" is a verb.

I assert that declarative languages should avoid verbs.

Instead of "ignoreCase" I believe that "caseSensitive" would be a better name for the property.

caseSensitive :: yes | no

In the next version of Daffodil, can you allow schemas to use "caseSensitive" rather than "ignoreCase" please?

/Roger