I know the answer. An initiator is never 'terminating markup'. I don't know whether we have made that sufficiently clear yet. regards, Tim Kimber, Common Transformation Team, Hursley, UK Internet: kimbert@uk.ibm.com Tel. 01962-816742 Internal tel. 246742 From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> To: dfdl-wg@ogf.org Date: 17/07/2012 04:17 Subject: [DFDL-WG] can an initiator be terminating markup? Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org Did we do a clarification about this? That is, when parsing for delimiters, do you scan for a subsequent fields initiator? I.e., can a subsequent field's initiator behave as terminating markup for a prior field? I somehow think we decide the answer to this is no, but didn't find discussion of it or rationale. -- Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL WG Co-Chair Tel: 781-330-0412 -- dfdl-wg mailing list dfdl-wg@ogf.org https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/dfdl-wg Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU