Hi Folks, If we want to describe a text data format, then we specify that the data has a text representation, i.e.,
representation="text" To describe a binary data format we do this: representation="binary" The "representation" terminology seems reasonable to me. Next, we want to describe the fundamental (atomic) units of the representation. For the text representation the units are characters. For the binary representation the units may be either bytes or bits. It seems to me, that "units" is the appropriate term for this, i.e., units="characters" units="bytes" units="bits" Sadly, that is not the term that DFDL uses. Instead, it uses "lengthUnits" as the term, i.e., lengthUnits="characters" lengthUnits="bytes" lengthUnits="bits" Why? That terminology makes no sense to me. Can you give a rationale for why the term is "lengthUnits" and not "units"? /Roger
