Following is the resolution from action 142

An errata document accompaniment to the DFDL 1.0 specification is under production and this will be added to it.

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

----- Forwarded by Steve Hanson/UK/IBM on 05/07/2011 18:51 -----

9.2. Grammar. Does not allow for a prefix length itself having a prefixed length, so does not match property description (ie, the change to permit this is draft 045 omitted to update the grammar).

Proposed change to grammar in 9.2:

 
PrefixLength = SimpleContent | PrefixPrefixLength SimpleContent
PrefixPrefixLength = SimpleContent
 
This is sufficient to allow the grammar to describe the needed “one more level” of prefix (as required for modeling an ASN.1 format) without allowing recursion.
 






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