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[jira] [Created] (DAFFODIL-2560) charset extensibility

Mike Beckerle created DAFFODIL-2560:
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             Summary: charset extensibility
                 Key: DAFFODIL-2560
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-2560
             Project: Daffodil
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Front End
    Affects Versions: 3.1.0
            Reporter: Mike Beckerle


A feature has been requested which would allow DFDL users to define their own character sets. 

This would require a new annotation object in the dfdl extensions (dfdlx) namespace where the charset would be described.

This is low priority because Daffodil is open source, and it really only takes 8 lines of code to define a new charset.

User have asked to be able to define charsets outside of Daffodil proper, but we'd still want some central registry of these things in a Daffodil project repository to prevent ongoing proliferation of duplicates.

Keeping the charset definitions as part of the code base forces them to be found and reused rather than everybody inventing the same charset in the XML of their schema, but calling it something different. 

 

 



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