I have a couple of expression language queries

1. Accessing hidden values - it seems inconsistent to allow access to hidden values when xpath is used within the DFDL domain but not when used outside.

2. Where xpath is allowed in the schema - It is currently allowed in an arbitrary set of properties (initiator, terminator, separator, occurseparator, null, etc ). Why not allow it everywhere?

Alan Powell

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Mike Beckerle <beckerle@us.ibm.com>
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I have two things that we can discuss:

The above is v3. It differs in that sequences with length were added. There's an issue in comments of the doc we can discuss.

Also: a new related proposal below - I can overview this, but we don't really need people to weigh in with opinions/decisions until more of a chance to think it through.

...mikeb

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