Steve Lawrence from the Daffodil project has observed that we're not particularly consistent about delimiters and the %ES; entity.

We allow WSP* with caveat that you can't have initiatedContent, but we disallow ES.

There is a use case for optional delimiters e.g.,

initator="%CR;%LF; %ES;"

meaning absorb and discard an optional CRLF.

Without %ES we end up having to model this syntax as an optional hidden element.

Thoughts?

...mikeb

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