On WG call agreed that no change needed, as lengthUnits 'bits' is restricted to certain types only.

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Steve Hanson
IBM Integration Bus, Hursley, UK
Architect, IBM DFDL
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
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From:        Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To:        "dfdl-wg@ogf.org" <dfdl-wg@ogf.org>
Date:        04/08/2016 22:20
Subject:        [DFDL-WG] Correction to 12.3.7.1 Length of Simple Elements with        Textual Representation
Sent by:        "dfdl-wg" <dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org>

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This section says "For a textual element, the dfdl:lengthUnits property can be either 'bytes' or 'characters'."

I think this statement is just old. It predates the addition of 7-bit and 6-bit characters to DFDL, and the notion that the width of characters might not be a multiple of 8-bits.

This section can be removed.

Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology | www.tresys.com
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