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
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