Re: [Servingxml-help] pos file repeating sections to nested XML

[Daniel P. <dan...@sy...>]

Ken,

Okay, I understand your requirement.

Adding a count attribute to sx:repeatingGroup is easy.  Supporting multiple 
repeating groups intermixed with field definitions is a little more work.  I 
don't have much time this week, but I should be able to put out a release in 
the following week that implements these features.

-- Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brewer, Ken" <ken...@pe...>
To: <ser...@li...>; "'Daniel Parker '" 
<dan...@sy...>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Servingxml-help] pos file repeating sections to nested XML


> Daniel,
>
> There is no delimiter to identify the end of a repeating group in my file.
> Instead, the documentation for the import file indicates how many times a
> group repeats and suggests doing the math to determine where the repeating
> group ends. For example, if the address section repeats 10 times, then the
> whole repeating group is 90 characters wide(based on my example record
> below) and the next normal field begins after that.
>
> It seems like the pattern matching approach could be buggy i.e. if the
> repeating group fields and the subsequent normal field(to match on) were 
> all
> numbers i.e. 19721964 where 1-2 and 3-4 are fields of a 2 field repeating
> group but 5-8 is a normal field. Ideally though, it would be nice if there
> was a more finite way i.e. if the repeatingGroup element honored an
> attribute such as 'count="10"'. The example I gave below is not my exact
> record layout and I have several files with similar problems. I will take 
> a
> second look at the docs for them, maybe the datatypes of the fields 
> adjacent
> to the repeating group are different than the repeating group such that
> pattern matching would work reliably.
>
> Can servingxml perform multiple passes e.g. if we know that address 
> repeats
> 10 times for a total of 90 characters, can we parse it out as one 90
> character field then, in a 2nd pass, parse that as a separate record where
> the whole record is one repeating group?
>
> Even if servingxml doesn't support this directly, it seems like it could 
> be
> done by driving servingxml from Java(embedded mode) with multiple resource
> scripts(or services) by passing the 1st service the whole record, then
> passing the 90 character address group to a 2nd service, and so on. Maybe
> more work and less ideal but still much better than writing the whole 
> thing
> myself!
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Ken
>