[wg-all] Newly published document: Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Experience Document 3 Bit Order and Encodings

[Greg Newby]

OGF Community:

A new document has been published in the OGF series.  All OGF
documents (including any that are open for public comment) may be
found here:

  www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/documents/documents

The new document:

* GFD-E.216, "Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Experience
Document 3 Bit Order and Encodings."  M. Beckerle, via DFDL-WG.

Abstract:

This document provides experience information to the OGF community on
the original Data Format Description Language (DFDL) 1.0 specification
(GFD-P-R.174).  Modeling a MIL-STD-2045 header in DFDL v1.0 is not
possible without the addition of new capabilities for specifying bit
order and non-standard encodings. There are many related military-
standard binary data formats which are similar, and so cannot be
modeled in DFDL.  This document describes the new properties and
property values that are required to successfully model this format.
All resulting errata have been incorporated into a revised Data Format
Description Language (DFDL) 1.0 specification (GFD-P-R.207) which
obsoletes GFD-P-R.174.

  -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor

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