The directives listed below are processed by the Dale File writer. The suffixes shown are prefixed by the current <WriterKeyword> in a mapping file. By default, the <WriterKeyword> for the Data File writer is DATAFILE.
DATASET
The value for this directive is a data file (*.*)
Required/Optional
Required
Workbench Parameter
Destination Data File
OVERWRITE_FILE
This optional directive specifies whether the output file should be overwritten or appended to. The default is for the destination file to be overwritten.
Values
YES (default) | NO
Required/Optional
Optional
Workbench Parameter
Overwrite Existing File
END_OF_LINE
Specifies the format of line terminators to be used for the output file.
Note: A value of None will cause no line terminators to be written and a value of Source will use the text_line_eol attribute to set the line terminator and if unset will default to system.
Values
Windows| UNIX | Macintosh | Source | None
Required/Optional
Optional
Workbench Parameter
Line Termination
WRITE_LAST_EOL
Specifies whether the final line in the file should be terminated with an End of Line (EOL) character appropriate to the END_OF_LINE directive.
Required/Optional
Optional
Values
YES (Default) | NO
Workbench Parameter
YES (Default) | NO
ENCODING
This optional specification controls which character encoding is used when writing the output file.
The default value is ANSI indicating the character encoding will be automatically detected from the system on which translation is being performed and all input strings will be encoded in the system encoding.
Note: Only the UTF encodings are stored by the format in the form of a Byte Order Marker (BOM), which is written optionally but by default when one of these encodings is chosen, and will be detected automatically when reading. All other character sets will need to be explicitly identified or they will be read as system.
If writing binary files it is recommended that the special BINARY encoding be used to ensure that the raw bytes are written in all cases.
Values
<encoding>
|
Encodings |
|
UTF-8 |
| UTF-16LE |
| UTF-16BE |
| ANSI |
| BINARY |
| BIG5 |
| SJIS |
| CP437 |
| CP708 |
| CP720 |
| CP737 |
| CP775 |
| CP850 |
| CP852 |
| CP855 |
| CP857 |
| CP860 |
| CP861 |
| CP862 |
| CP863 |
| CP864 |
| CP865 |
| CP866 |
| CP869 |
| CP932 |
| CP936 |
| CP950 |
| CP1250 |
| CP1251 |
| CP1252 |
| CP1253 |
| CP1254 |
| CP1255 |
| CP1256 |
| CP1257 |
| CP1258 |
| ISO8859-1 |
| ISO8859-2 |
| ISO8859-3 |
| ISO8859-4 |
| ISO8859-5 |
| ISO8859-6 |
| ISO8859-7 |
| ISO8859-8 |
| ISO8859-9 |
| ISO8859-13 |
| ISO8859-15 |
Workbench Parameter
Character Encoding
MIME_TYPE (FME Server use only)
This directive is only valid for users who are authoring for FME Server's streaming service, and would like to be able to create HTML files on the fly for streaming into the browser (as opposed to streaming plain text back to the browser).
By adjusting this setting, the user is communicating to and storing in the workspace information on how the text file will be streamed back if it is used in the streaming service.
Values
The valid values for this directive include all valid MIME types. Several common types are listed and others can be entered as text strings.
Default: text/plain
Required/Optional
Optional
WRITE_UTF8_BOM
This directive specifies whether the byte order mark for UTF-encoded file should be written at the beginning. This option applies only when the encoding is set to a UTF encoding.
Required/Optional
Optional
Values
YES (default) | NO