Mike

We originally decided that lengthUnit=characters wasn't allowed on sequence and choice because of complications with encodings etc. Then when we removed lengthKind from sequence and choice it moved up to the complex element.
Remember that this is only to support the box use case and it seems unlikely you would specify the size of the box in characters.

Alan Powell

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From:	Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To:	Alan Powell/UK/IBM@IBMGB
Cc:	dfdl-wg@ogf.org
Date:	23/06/2009 19:07
Subject:	Re: [DFDL-WG] output value calc

I've viewed your comments and will incorporate them and resubmit.

One question is about complex types and text representation.

You mentioned we don't allow lengthKind="characters" on complex types. Seems to me if representation="text" it is quite likely that everything is given in lengthUnits="characters".

I'm not sure why not, though I have vague recollection of this restriction being discussed. Can you remind me?

...mike

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Alan Powell <alan_powell@uk.ibm.com> wrote:

Mike

Comments from our review in attached doc

Alan Powell

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From:	Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To:	dfdl-wg@ogf.org
Date:	19/06/2009 04:13
Subject:	[DFDL-WG] output value calc

New draft of output value calc stuff. based on prior review (last week) which simplified and clarified things somewhat.

Examples are a simple and a complex type, with the same context - fits in a box that is rounded up in size to next multiple of 4 bytes.

There's some material in here also about bit strings and use of dfdl:length measured in bits. This was to cover truncation fully. It is not a comprehensive treatment of bit fields though.

All mention of variables and/or parameters is gone.

See what you think.

....mike

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