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Re: Quick schema queries



When this has come up in the past, the answer has always been "lower
case, but just make sure you can handle it if you get a message with
upper case characters in it".

I tend to regard that line in the spec as being incorrect.

Mal


Frank Mc Alinden wrote:

> Hi Mal
>
> > Not sure about the first part, but you are correct in thinking
that
> > messages are all lower case.
>
> Has the specs changed ???.....my copy is dated 10/12/2003
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mal Lansell" <mal@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] Quick schema queries
>
>
> > Not sure about the first part, but you are correct in thinking
that
> > messages are all lower case.  My own SDK forces message elements
to
> > lower case before doing anything with them, so it can receive
mixed case
> > messages just fine.
> >
> > Mal
> >
> >
> > Mark Hindess wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Are x10.basic messages permitted to send the
"ALL_UNITS_ON"
> command?  It
> >> is missing from the list of valid commands (both on the old
site and on
> >> the wiki).  I was about to add it when I worried that perhaps
it was
> >> intentional.  'ALL_LIGHTS_OFF' was in the list twice - I've
corrected
> >> this on the wiki copy only.
> >>
> >> I went to read the osd.basic schema on the wiki and it hadn't
been
> >> copied over yet so I took the liberty of doing it.
> >>
> >> One thing that did cross my mind as I copied it.  Everything
is in
> upper
> >> case, but Ian mentioned in passing a while back that:
> >>
> >>   name section (and indeed all sturctural elements of the
message) must
> >>   be lowercase
> >>
> >> I left the case unchanged, but I guess these should really be
converted
> >> to lowercase to avoid confusion?  (And converting the schemas
when they
> >> are copied would be reasonably efficient time to do it.)
> >>
> >> I'll happily update osd.basic depending on the answer to this
question,
> >> but I'm not volunteering to do them all. ;-)
> >>
> >> Also, would I be correct in thinking that values from
predefined sets
> >> of constants - such as the X10 command values or 'write',
'clear', etc
> >> commands in the osd.basic schema - should also be lower case
now?
> >>
> >> Obviously, I'm thinking sending here and being flexible about
receiving
> >> upper/mixed case.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Mark.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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