Yes. This equality is stated in the DFDL spec section 14.4.

IBM DFDL does not support dfdl:floating yet.

Regards

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



From:        "Garriss Jr., James P." <jgarriss@mitre.org>
To:        "dfdl-wg@ogf.org" <dfdl-wg@ogf.org>,
Date:        13/03/2013 19:16
Subject:        [DFDL-WG] unordered vs floating - identical?
Sent by:        dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org

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Are these functionally the same?
 
#1
Sequence sequenceKind=unordered
           Element name=a
           Element name=b
           Element name=c
/Sequence
 
#2
 
Sequence sequenceKind=ordered
           Element name=a floating=yes
           Element name=b floating=yes
           Element name=c floating=yes
/Sequence
 
 
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