Don Mendelson

[repository schema] Propose to define identifier attributes as token

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Most identifier attributes in the repository schema are of XML Schema datatype "string". I propose that they should instead be of type "token" which suppresses leading and trailing whitespace and...

For auditing, analysis, and other purposes, messages need to be stored for a long time, perhaps years. How can they be brought out of archive and correlated to scenarios in...

Reported by Jörg Thonnes in the FIX Forum: > wondering whether this XSD is still required: > > xmlns:functx="http://www.functx.com" > My IDE says: no. So could it be dropped at...

It is expected that Orchestra will be commonly used for code generation. Names of messages, fields, codes, etc. should not conflict with keywords of common programming languages since that would...

[repository schema] Allow name in fieldRef, groupRef, componentRef

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This has been entered as an issue in fix-orchestra-spec https://github.com/FIXTradingCommunity/fix-orchestra-spec/issues/27. Propose to add name as optional attribute in attribute group `refidGrp`. It is include in fieldRef, groupRef, componentRef, and messageRef...

[repository schema] sort attribute of codeType should be numeric

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The sort attribute is used enforce order on codes within a codeSet for documentation purposes only. (A set is by definition unordered.) It is currently of type string in the...

[repositoryValidator] Warning for usage of a deprecated field

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The repository validator already warns about deprecated fields. It should also warn about a fieldRef to a deprecated field that is not marked deprecated.

[repository schema] latestEP attribute is redundant

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This attribute of `` is redundant to metadata for the repository

FIXP UnsequencedHeartbeat message has no body, just have a header on the wire. However, Orchestra schema doesn't let you have an empty message structure. This is an unusual case, but...

Each actor and flow can have an annotation element, but the parent element does not have annotation in the Orchestra repository schema to hold documentation for all actors and flows....