DFDL V1 draft 42 is available from gridforge.

http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.dfdl-wg/docman.root.current_0/doc16037

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042
Alan Powell
Rename leadingSkipBytes and trailingSkipBytes to leadingSkip and TrailingSkip to allow either to be bytes or bits.

Removed restrictons on alignmentUnits

Clarified trailingSkip when dfdl:lengthKind is delimited or endOfParent

Removed timing from dfdl:assert.
Expression for dfdl:assert and dfdl:discriminator may only refer to previous or child elements.
Clarified when expression must be evaluated.

Clarified defaulting arrays and separatorPolicy 'required'

Improved description of xxpadCharacter

Changed choicekind enumerations. Added choiceLengthKind

Corrected syntax of expression predicates

Allow packed or bcd calendars to be delimited

Clarified that outputValueCalc ignores infoset.

Other minor changes.

Property expressions must not contain forward references.

Improved descriptions of property types and corrected some properties.

Significant update to Nils and defaults sections.

Dropped dfdl:nilIndicatorPath and dfdl:nilIndicatorIndex

dfdl:missingValueInitiatorPolicy applies to dfdl:element, dfdl:simpleType, dfdl:sequence, dfdl:choice, dfdl:group

2010-07-28

 
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Alan Powell
 
Development - MQSeries, Message Broker, ESB
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