Excerpt from daffodil users mailing list indicates that the discussion of how "lax" textNumberCheckPolicy="lax" is w.r.t. plus signs on numbers.

> If you set textNumberCheckPolicy="lax", then

> we do ignore leading plus signs in the data

The DFDL specification doesn't seem to say that a leading plus sign is ignored. Here's what it says:

If 'lax' and dfdl:textNumberRep is 'standard' then grouping separators are ignored, leading and trailing whitespace is ignored, leading zeros are ignored and quoted characters may be omitted.

Nothing about ignoring plus signs in that.

Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology | www.tresys.com

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