TextMapping inherited from CDIFManifest
DiscoveryDataDescription::Classes::TextMapping
Definition
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cdi:TextMapping
Definition
Definition
The physical characteristics of an instance variable which appears in a data set using a text-based encoding and having a tabular structure (a tabular text data set).
CDIF
Definition
Per-field mapping specialized for delimited or fixed-width text data sets.
Diagram
Inheritance
Generalizes: AbstractMapping
Attributes
| Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| index | integer | [0..1] | DocumentationOriginalReferencecdi:TextMapping-index CDIFDefinitionNon-negative integer that orders the fields in the data structure (column number). Scopecdif:index - column index of this variable. |
| isFixedWidth | boolean | [0..1] | DocumentationOriginalReferencecdi:TextMapping-isFixedWidth CDIFDefinitioncdi:isFixedWidth - whether this is a fixed-width text column. |
| length | integer | [0..1] | DocumentationOriginalReferencecdi:TextMapping-length DefinitionLength in characters of the physical representation of the value. From the W3C Recommendation "Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data" (https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-metadata/) 5.11.2 "length: A numeric atomic property that contains a single integer that is the exact length of the value. The value of this property becomes the length annotation for the described datatype. See Length Constraints in [tabular-data-model] for details." Corresponds to DDI2.5 var/location/width and DDI 3.2 PhysicalLocation/Width. CDIFDefinitionThe column width if the tabular text is fixed width (TextMapping.length). Scopecdi:length - column width for fixed-width data. |
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