I replied in the forum, but to save bouncing back and forth between email and the public comment forums, this is the reply:

This format contains strings that use us-ascii-7-bit-packed encoding, signed integers, and single-bit flags. The format in question is a header format. It is also possible for them to contain "payloads" that use 8-bit characters.

However, complex types composed of these simple types all depend on this bit ordering as well.

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

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Steve Hanson <smh@uk.ibm.com> wrote:

I have replied to the topic with a question

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, IBM Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh@uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848

From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To: "dfdl-wg@ogf.org" <dfdl-wg@ogf.org>,
Date: 26/09/2013 22:39
Subject: [DFDL-WG] new public comment: byteOrder not sufficient. Need bitOrder.
Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org

Please see http://redmine.ogf.org/boards/15/topics/43

This is a big stumbling block for us and our customers with the current draft.

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