Data Transformation Engine What's New Reference Guide

Chapter 7 – Version 6.0 Mercator Design Studio Enhancements
What's New Reference Guide
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white space can appear in the data before the first component and could appear
after each component. White space component syntax includes a Build As
property that allows specification of a literal to be used when builds output data
objects are built.
The Version 6.0 XML DTD Importer uses these white space property extensions for
defining XML data.
More Granularity for Item Content Restrictions
In all releases through Version 5.0, item restrictions were limited to a set of
inclusive values. Version 6.0 allows an additional exclude option for value
restrictions, as well as character and range restrictions. Type trees created in an
earlier release of Mercator products and opened in Version 6.0 automatically
convert item restrictions to have the new include value property.
The new item restriction properties differ according to item sub-class.
Include Exclude Character Range
Text Character Western
" " " "
Text Character Japanese
" "
Text Binary
" "
Number Character
" " "
Number Binary
" " "
DateTime Character
" " "
DateTime Binary
" " "
Syntax
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The new character restriction properties support the definition of custom character
sets and provide native XML support for character references. Options for
character restrictions include properties for specifying which characters can be
included first, which characters can be included after the first character, which
substrings can be excluded, and a property to specify how these restrictions can
be released.
Range restrictions allow you to specify a minimum and maximum range of values
to be included or excluded.