Description of the bitOrder property says: "The bit order can only change on byte boundaries, and alignment of up to 7 bits will be inserted to ensure byte-alignment whenever the bit order changes." Should say "The bit order can only change on byte boundaries, and alignment of up to 7 bits will be skipped (parsing) or inserted (unparsing) to ensure byte-alignment whenever the bit order changes. Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology | www.tresys.com Please note: Contributions to the DFDL Workgroup's email discussions are subject to the OGF Intellectual Property Policy <http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php>