In your case, I believe you want to use dfdl:occursCountKind="stopValue".
I am not 100% sure this feature is implemented in Daffodil yet. If not, you would want to use dfdl:occursCountKind="parsed", and put an assert on each of your types that they are not the value "----" ________________________________ From: Costello, Roger L. <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 2:08:18 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Can't have an array of arrays? Hello DFDL community, My input contains an array of fruit values, separator, array of wood values, separator, and an array of color values: Apple Banana Orange Watermelon Grapes Cantaloupe ---- Oak Pine Maple ---- Red Green Purple Blue I thought this DFDL schema would do the trick: <xs:element name="input"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence dfdl:separator="%NL;" dfdl:separatorPosition="infix"> <xs:element name="fruit" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="unbounded" dfdl:occursCountKind="implicit" /> <xs:sequence dfdl:hiddenGroupRef="separatorGroup" /> <xs:element name="wood" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="unbounded" dfdl:occursCountKind="implicit" /> <xs:sequence dfdl:hiddenGroupRef="separatorGroup" /> <xs:element name="color" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="unbounded" dfdl:occursCountKind="implicit" /> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:group name="separatorGroup"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="separator" type="xs:string"> <xs:annotation> <xs:appinfo source="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/";> <dfdl:assert test="{. eq '----'}" /> </xs:appinfo> </xs:annotation> </xs:element> </xs:sequence> </xs:group> Sadly, that produces this error: [error] Schema Definition Error: occursCountKind='implicit' with unbounded maxOccurs only allowed for last element of a positional sequence What is the correct way to express an array of arrays? /Roger
