DFDL V1 draft 43 is available from gridforge. http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.dfdl-wg/do... Latest entry at the top please Version Author/ Contributor History Date(yyyy-mm-dd) 043 Alan Powell Changed calendar pattern character range to (0-24) Added description of lengthPattern property Xs:fixed is for validation only Removed dfdl:hidden annotation and added hiddenGroupRef property to sequence Improved property syntax form description Added test pattern to assert and discriminator. Added message property to discriminator Changed long form of assert and discriminator to be consistent with format properties Changed regular expression language to Java or PERL. Xs:fixed is not used during parsing except to provide a default value. It is a schema definition error is the empty sequence is the content of a complex type. Added dfdl:UTF16Width to say if UTF-16 is fixed or variable width Removed appendix A (UTF-16 is variable width encoding unless UFT16Width is fixed) Clarified syntax of default value expression in defineVariable and newVariableInstances. Added Conformance and Optional Features sections Changed dfdl functions teston/off, seton/off to testbits and setbits Clarifies schema definition errors on emptyValueDelimiterPolicy and nilValueDelimiterPolicy Added prefixLength region to grammar. Added 'none' to dfdl:textNumberRoundingMode Added testValueKind to assert and discriminator Added 'suppressAtEndLax' and 'suppressedAtEndStrict' to separatorPolicy 2010-09-30 Regards Alan Powell Development - MQSeries, Message Broker, ESB IBM Software Group, Application and Integration Middleware Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM MP211, Hursley Park Hursley, SO21 2JN United Kingdom Phone: +44-1962-815073 e-mail: alan_powell@uk.ibm.com 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