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

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

Version 0.3.2, just released, now supports a count attribute for repeating 
groups, and supports multiple repeating groups mixed with fields.  See the 
"students-fix" example in the on-line documentation.

-- Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brewer, Ken" <ken...@pe...>
To: "'Daniel Parker'" <dan...@sy...>; 
<ser...@li...>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:40 AM
Subject: RE: [Servingxml-help] pos file repeating sections to nested XML


> Sounds great. I have about 30 different files to import/export. I think 
> this
> is one of the more exotic requirements but it's still likely that I'll
> encounter another need for a tweak later on. I'd like to understand how I
> might go about making tweaks like this myself if necessary. Can you give 
> me
> a brief description?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Parker [mailto:dan...@sy...]
> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 9:11 PM
> To: Brewer, Ken; ser...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Servingxml-help] pos file repeating sections to nested XML
>
> 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
>>
>
>
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