The spec mentions DFDL has "out-of-band" handling in section 1.

A long time ago we dropped out-of-band nil handling from DFDL v1.0. This comment in section 1 feels like it was not excised at that time and should be dropped.

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Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL WG Co-Chair 
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