Good question.Here are a couple more to consider, along the same lines: Q1: Suppose that the group looks like this: <xs:sequence dfdl:sequenceKind="ordered"> <xs:element name="floating1" dfdl:floating="yes" type="xs:string"/> <xs:sequence ref="someGlobalModelGroup"> <xs:element name="floating2" dfdl:floating="yes" type="xs:string"/> <xs:sequence> This is effectively an unordered group ( all except one member has floating='yes') but it contains a sequence group. Do we need to prohibit this? Q2: Suppose that the group looks like this: <xs:sequence dfdl:sequenceKind="ordered"> <xs:element name="floating1" dfdl:floating="yes" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="nonFloating" dfdl:floating="no" type="xs:string" minOccurs="5" maxOccurs="5" dfdl:occursCountKind="implicit"/> <xs:element name="floating2" dfdl:floating="yes" type="xs:string"/> <xs:sequence> Here, the 5 occurrences of nonFloating could be scattered all over the group's content, with floating elements in between. Is that something that we want to allow? It seems inconsistent with the decision to re: occursCountKind and sequenceKind='unordered'. regards, Tim Kimber, DFDL Team, Hursley, UK Internet: kimbert@uk.ibm.com Tel. 01962-816742 Internal tel. 37246742 From: Steve Hanson/UK/IBM@IBMGB To: dfdl-wg@ogf.org, Date: 14/08/2013 12:15 Subject: [DFDL-WG] Extra restrictions needed for dfdl:floating 'yes' ? Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org Section 14.4 of the spec says: "An ordered sequence of n element children with either n or n-1 of those children with dfdl:floating='yes' is equivalent to an unordered sequence with the same n element children with dfdl:floating='no'." Does this mean that the extra restrictions we recently added for unordered sequences must also apply to floating elements? If so these would manifest themselves as: It is a schema definition error if an element with dfdl:floating 'yes' is an optional element or an array element and its dfdl:occursCountKind property is not ‘parsed’. It is a schema definition error if two or more elements with dfdl:floating 'yes' in the same group have the same name and the same namespace. Regards Steve Hanson Architect, IBM Data Format Description Language (DFDL) Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group IBM SWG, Hursley, UK smh@uk.ibm.com tel:+44-1962-815848 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 -- 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