Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Specification
OGF Proposed Recommendation GFD-P-R.174, January 31, 2011


13.8 Properties Specific to Float/Double with Binary representation

Property Name

Description

binaryFloatRep

Enum or DFDL Expression

This specifies the encoding method for the float and double.

Valid values are ‘ieee’, ‘ibm390Hex’,

This property can be computed by way of an expression which returns the string of 'ieee' or ' ibm390Hex’ . The expression must not contain forward references to elements which have not yet been processed.

Annotation: dfdl:element, dfdl:simpleType


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