All DFDL V1 draft 038 is available at https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.dfdl-wg/d... There have again been many changes listed below including many editorial updates to make the specification more readable. The DFDL expression language and DFDL regular expression language sections have been moved towards the end as they are for more advanced users. All highlighted changes are for the changes made in this draft only and do not include changes made in previous drafts. Unfortunately I have had significant problems with MS Word crashes while creating this draft which have resulted the formatting going haywire in some places. I have corrected the major problems but many minor ones still exist. In particular all the cross references have lost the number of the section they reference. This will be fixed in the next draft. Please send comments to me by March 3rd Latest entry at the top please Version Author/ Contributor History Date(yyyy-mm-dd) 039 Alan Powell Added numberPattern section. Added defaulting of complex types Changed missingValueInitiatorPolicy to 'required' and 'prohibited' Changed separatorPolicy to 'required' 'supressed' 'supressedAtEnd' Added defaulting choices. Many editorial changes Added lengthKind delimited for 'binary' 'packed/bcd' Clarified empty sequqnce wording Reworded infoset round tripping. Moved DFDL Expression and regular expression section to near back os spec. Added treatment of unrepresentable characaters to infoset section. Clatified relative path expressions on global declarations. Representation assumed to be text for string and binary for hexBinary Change alignment to be 1 based. docmentFinalTerninatorCanBeMissing and docmentFinalSeparatorCanBeMissing change to dfdl:format only Added UPA checks Added Ambiguity checks Removed defineTextNumberFormat, TextNumberFormat and textNumberFormatRef and moved properties in line Revised 'Resolving points of uncertainty' and discriminators Clarified Nan and infinity values 2010-02-24 Regards Alan Powell Development - MQSeries, Message Broker, ESB IBM Software Group, Application and Integration Middleware Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM MP211, Hursley Park Hursley, SO21 2JN United Kingdom Phone: +44-1962-815073 e-mail: alan_powell@uk.ibm.com Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU