I’ve a need for Option Exercise /Expiry messages. Issue 184 and the archive email threads suggest FpML has a model for Option Exercise/Expiry that was due for addition to FpML 4.3. I see from the roadmap this is now scheduled for FpML 4.5. Could I request a pointer to the draft schema for this (Is … Continued
In 4.4 documentation (e.g. http://www.fpml.org/spec/fpml-4-4-4-wd-3/html/validation-rules/rules-english-shared.html#namespace) a namespace section has been added for the 1st time and has a value of: ‘http://www.fpml.org/spec/fpml-4-4-4-wd-3’. What is the purpose of this? It does not correspond to the namespace of the 4.4 release.
FpML 4.3 states it is backwards compatible with 4.2 (http://www.fpml.org/spec/2007/lcwd-fpml-4-3-2007-10-30/html/index.html with one proviso 1.6.2.1) If this is true, one should be able to validate a 4.2 message using the 4.3 schema in any tool that supports validation against schema. However, this is not possible due to the namespace naming policy. http://www.fpml.org/spec/2007/tr-fpml-arch-2-1-2007-09-17/ – 4.4.1 That calls … Continued