Daffodil 0.12.x

Dependencies

Core

check for unescaped curly braces in DFDL literals
ignore dfdl:representation when type is xs:hexBinary or xs:string. Representation is assumed to be binary with xs:hexBinary, and text with xs:string
remove defaulting of dfdl:sequenceKind to ordered. The property must now be specified
fix bug causing the use of the wrong root element when not provided via the API or CLI
report schema definition error when no terminator is supplied, but lengthKind='delimited' and tralingSkip > 0
add check for alignment ambiguity
require xs:string and xs:hexBinary to defined minOccurs/maxOccurs when lengthKind='implicit'
when a delimiter is not found, display what was found in the error message
check for distinctness of delimiters
disallow whitespace in some properties. Instead the DFDL character entites such as %SP; must be used instead
add support for DFDL expressions in escapeCharacter and escapeEscapeCharacter
fix incorrect parse failures when escapeEscapeCharacter was set to the empty string

API

add new function to the Compiler setValidateDFDLSchemas to enable/disable DFDL schema validation, such as unique particle attribute and various facet related checks

CLI

modify --validation-mode option to have the form --validate [mode]. If mode is not provided, it defaults to "on". If --validate is not provided, validation defaults to "off".

Daffodil 0.11.x

Core

add support for runtime expressions in byteOrder
add support for sequenceKind="unordered"
add support for infoset validation, three modes
1. "on": check constraints and Xerces validation
2. "limited": check constraints, no Xerces validation
3. "off"" no validation performed
add support for external variables
add support for advanced text number properties:
- textStandardDecimalSeparator (static & dynamic)
- textStandardGroupingDeparator (static & dynamic)
- textStandardExponentRep (static & dynamic) (renamed from textStandardExponentCharacter)
- textStandardInfinityRep
- textStandardNaNRep
- textStandardZeroRep
- textNumberPattern
- textNumberCheckPolicy
- textNumberRounding
- textNumberRoundingMode
- textNumberRoundingIncrement
add new DFDL expression compiler to better detect invalid expressions, primarily those related to unordered sequences
add min/maxOccurs validation check
require appinfo source attribute to be "http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/"
add support for binary and text xs:decimal type
improve diagnostics when a variable is used but not set
fix bug with dynamic separators using variables
fix SDE detection on last required element when maxOccurs="unbounded" and {{occursCountKind="implicit"}}
fix lengthKind='pattern' to not error when a match is not found, but instead to return a length of zero
fix bug where nonNegativeInteger range was not checked correctly
fix bug iso-8859-1 support

Java API

CLI

new options to enable external variables
- -D, --variables to define one or more external variables
- -c, --config to define an XML file containing external variables
new option for validation
- --validation-mode=<mode>, where mode can be "on", "off", or "limited"

TDML

ability to enable validation via a new attribute, validation="<mode>", placed on a parserTestCase

API

new function added to the DataProcessor to modify validation mode: setValidationMode(mode)
new compile methods added to to supply external variables, one method takes a Map and one takes a File
new methods added to the DataProcessor to the DataProcessor to supply external variables, setExternalVariables(), which can accept wither a File, Map, or list of Binding

Core/Java API

fix bug causing duplicate elements to be added to the infoset
fix bug where delimiters containing DFDL character entities but not starting with a DFDL character entity caused a schema definition error

Debugger

fix bug where the debugger/tracer attempted to access a non-existent element after a parse failure, causing an abort
limit info parser output to 2 lines of text
modify the tracer defaults to only output the parent node and its children, instead of the entire infoset

Core

xs:include and xs:import now work with relative file schemaLocations
respect minOccurs when occursCountKind="implicit"
diagnostics improvements
fix 7-bit USASCII with implicit alignment
add schema definition warning if xs:appinfo source is incorrect
fix unsignedXXX values
improve schema definition error detection
eliminate duplicate errors
require that a complexType must have exactly one child, which must be a sequence, choice, or group reference
allow spaces in pathnames to input files and schemas
calculated values (e.g. inputValueCalc) maintain their precision in error messages
check for invalid DFDL entities
support for escaping percent sign

Java API

TDML Runner

can now use CDATA tags in dfdl:infoset for cases where characters like < and > are in the expected output
replaceDFDLEntities attribute for documentPart element now defaults to false

CLI

new --trace option to display verbose output of Daffodil parsing
the --debug option can now take a file containing a list of debugger commands (e.g. --debug=cmds.txt)
add check for not yet implemented features
fix bug where order of multiple --schema options was not maintained

Debugger