Mike, I think we might be interpreting out-of-band differently. I simply read it as 'out-of-type' (eg, I use 'NIL' for an integer) and I think you are reading it as 'out-of-line' (eg, nil indicator in another part of the data).  By all means change the phrase to make it clear that it is the former.

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh@uk.ibm.com
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From:        Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To:        dfdl-wg@ogf.org
Date:        16/10/2012 21:54
Subject:        [DFDL-WG] minor errata? "out-of-band" handling
Sent by:        dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org

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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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