The TDS Format properties described here apply to:
Property | Type | Meaning |
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Tag | String | Specify the value that is used to identify the object
in a message bit stream. If the object is simple and the Data Element Separation property of the complex type or types in which the object is a child is Tagged Delimited, Tagged Fixed Length, or Tagged Encoded Length, this property must contain a non-empty value. If the object is a complex element, and the Data Element Separation property of its parent is Tagged Delimited, Tagged Fixed Length, or Tagged Encoded Length, the property can contain an empty value. The value for this property must be unique for every element in the message set; that is, no two elements in the message set can contain the same value for this property. |
Data Pattern | String | Specify the regular expression that is to be used by the parser to identify the data in the message to be assigned to the object. This property is used when the Data Element Separation method has been set to Use Data Pattern in the complex type. See Regular expression syntax for more details. |
Interpret Element Value | Enumerated type | Specify whether
values stored within this object must be interpreted as having significance
for the parser and, if so, the type of interpretation that must occur. This
interpretation is generally standard-specific and is therefore hard-coded. The possible values for this property are:
Note: The Message Key enumeration
has been deprecated
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Property | Type | Meaning |
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Encoding Null | Enumerated type | Select one of the following options from the drop-down
list:
The option that you select determines the value that you must set for the property Encoding Null Value. For full information about using these options, see TDS Null handling options. |
Encoding Null Value | String | The use of this property depends on the Encoding
Null property that is described above. The default value is zero. If you set the Encoding Null property for a dateTime object to NULLLogicalValue, the value that you set must be in an ISO8601 dateTime format. These formats are described in DateTime as string data. For example, specify a value that conforms to the yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss format; for example, 1970-12-01. |