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FpML-AWG RE: character set for code lists - issue 999



I'd second Stephen Turner's assertion that Codes with limited character are common for reference data. What now appears is a description rather than a code which lends itself to many permutations of mistakes in replicating or keying as there may be a need to escape characters etc. Codes are typically alpha without spaces or other strange characters that must be escaped to process.

 

I'd recommend that all codes consistently adopt the following base type restriction of codes as used in the xsd:

 

                                <xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">

                                                <xsd:pattern value="[a-zA-Z,_,\p{N}]*"/>

                                </xsd:restriction>

 

Regards,

Derek LaSalle

Information Architecture

JP Morgan

From: owner-awg@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-awg@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marc Gratacos
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:33 AM
To: awg@xxxxxxxx
Subject: FpML-AWG character set for code lists - issue 999

 

An issue has been raised regarding the characters being used in code lists such as the commodity reference price, floating rate index, the commodity business calendar, and possibly others:

 

 

Some of these values such as the commodity reference price, are extracted directly from the ISDA Definitions. The source of these values is ISDA and not FpML. Limiting the character set would mean that we'd need an additional mapping between the ISDA and the transformed FpML codes.

 

Technically, I don't see why we should limit the character set but I may be missing something.

 

Any thoughts?

 


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