What I was trying to say is that if I know that a field is not going to have sub-components, then I could set its type as “Text Data” (or a new data type “Text with no subcomponents”), but if I know that it may have sub-components, then I can declare it as “Composite” and then let the xlate grab the whole field and determine (looking into the data type) if any delimiters inside that field can be ignored. Of course, Quovadx would need to add the code to the parser to make it happen.
Do this make sense?
Carlos
