Column-Aligned Text (CAT) Feature Representation

In addition to the generic FME feature attributes that FME Workbench adds to all features (see About Feature Type Attributes), this format also adds format-specific attributes (Format Attributes).

The CAT feature attributes consists of user attributes that were specified as integer, string or real in the SCHEMA parameter.

In addition, all CAT features contain a cat_type attribute, which is set to cat_none if there is no geometry, or to cat_point if coordinates were specified. cat_type also indicates that the feature was generated from a CAT file.

The table below further specifies these attributes and their allowed values.

Attribute Name

Contents

cat_type

The CAT geometric type of this entity.

Range: cat_point | cat_none

cat_none

Points

cat_type: cat_point

CAT point features specify a single x, y (and an optional z) coordinate, in addition to any associated user-defined attributes.