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227: Version Identification

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Version Identification is required in order to support unambiguous and correct automation of business processes Please review file “fpml-doc-4-2.xsd” in branch “choreography”

226: Consistent token usage

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At present there is a great deal of inconsistent token usage, which is most evident in the area of token usage to identify trades Marc Gratacos and Andrew Jacobs are aware of this issue, and are working on it, but this needs to be brought to a rapid conclusion in order that the user community … Continued

225: No operation use of xsd:restriction

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Schema commonly uses xsd:restriction for “no-op” where content is restricted out, and them restored, providing no value to the content model produced, and causing additional difficulty for software tools and our user community Please review the file “fpml-msg-4-2.xsd” in the “choreography” branch on the FpML Subversion Server where I have derived the current content model … Continued

222: Add ability to specify earlyTerminationProvision within capFloor product

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We would like the capFloor product to be extended to include the existing earlyTerminationProvision element to allow early termination provisions to be captured on caps/floors. An optional earlyTerminationProvision element of type EarlyTerminationProvision should be added to the CapFloor complex type. … … … … Regards Guy Gurden

221: Inflation index FpML scheme definitions

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Were looking to use the inflation scheme definitions (the ones published in http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/inflation-index-description-1-0.xml). We were reconciling these against the index descriptions defined in Section 1.12 of the 2006 ISDA Inflation Derivatives Definitions (see http://www.isda.org/cgi-bin/_isdadocsdownload/download.asp?DownloadID=158) and noticed some anomalies that wed like to get corrected: 1. EUR-EXT-CPI The description (EUR Excluding Tobacco-Non-revised Consumer Price) is missing … Continued

220: Cannot determine version of message schema

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I cannot determine the version of a message schema from a message. In the above example the version attribute says it is “4-2”, but I cannot determine which 4-2 it is. For example it could be any of: 4-2TR 4-2LCWD 4-2WD1 4-2WD2 4-2WD3 This is important as you need to know what to validate against. … Continued

218: XML Spy project file

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Please merge this XML Spy project file into the trunk: https://dedicated.fpml.org:8443/svn/fpml/branches/annotated/FpML.spp Many of us use XML Spy and this small file makes life much easier for us, making us more productive with FpML.