I believe it was to handle 'Notes' style segments in EDI formats. Steph Fetzer wanted it, I think for NTE segments in X12, as she said these segments were inserted by users as a way of adding comments to an EDI message. It must have been something that WTX supported.

It would apply equally well to other comment-style records.

Regards

Steve Hanson

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From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To: DFDL-WG <dfdl-wg@ogf.org>
Date: 10/04/2020 18:51
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [DFDL-WG] what data format was dfdl:floating intended to support?
Sent by: "dfdl-wg" <dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org>

I got asked this recently, and I know this property got added to DFDL for some particular cases, but I don't recall what format(s) they are, and if they are well-known, or something that was just encountered in some users' ad-hoc formats.

...mikeb

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