[DFDL-WG] DFDL V1 Draft 039 is available

[Mike Beckerle]

Some comments. I am unable to make this week's call, but here is my feedback
on these items.


>
> 1) Name of property dfdl:textNumberRepresentation is not consistent with
> dfdl:binaryNumber*Rep*, dfdl:binaryFloat*Rep*, etc.
>

I vote for "Rep" not "Representation" uniformly. It's just too long a word
makes all the example word-wrap badly, the property tables all look yucky,
etc.


>
> 2) The dfdl:numberPattern etc properties that have been moved from the
> defunct dfdl:textNumberFormat annotation to dfdl:element etc should be
> called dfdl:*text*NumberPattern etc. Otherwise users will think they apply
> to binary numbers too.
>

Agreed.

>
> 3) In section 14.3 on sequences, there are several sub-sections that talk
> about parsing according to different ways of specifying length (ie,
> lengthKind). But dfdl:sequence no longer carries dfdl:lengthKind so I think
> these sub-sections are not in the right place.  I think they should be in
> section 12, under the correct 12.3.x lengthKind sub-section.
>

I had the action to revisit sequences w.r.t. the grammar stuff. I moved
these sections you mention around in a revision I sent to Alan yesterday. I
put them up into the general length discussion.

...mikeb
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