[dfdl-wg] How to handle multi-dimensional arrays - version 2

[Myers, James D]

> 
> Ok, so I guess your point I can summarize like this:
> 
> MD arrays shouldn't need special treatment. We should be able 
> to compose what we need from lower levels that have only a 
> small number of primitives. Rich functionality must be able 
> to be built up from this. If we can't so this, that is, if 
> the bottom level has to have lots of elaborate constructs, 
> then something is wrong with the composition model.

yes... if the goal is to provide a fine-grained XML-model as in your
example. If there's a need to expose an MD array as a single XML
element, then we need a new datatype. Otherwise I think treating MD
arrays as special starts mixing types and reader params in ways that
limit composition.

  Jim