0007028: Dictionary example for union misleading

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0007028	10000-005: Information Model	Spec	public	2021-06-15 08:29	2021-09-28 16:27

Reporter	Thomas Merk	Assigned To	Jeff Harding
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	assigned	Resolution	open

Summary	0007028: Dictionary example for union misleading
Description	The example in Appendix E.4 #6 (A simple union) is misleading. The XML tag is a part of the "normal" Variant encoding, but definitely NOT simple. The described Variant is a mixture of a Structure with optional fields (ArrayLengthSpecified) and a union (VariantType). If a union shall be described via the data type attribute the encoding is limited to one (implicite) selector using UInt32 (and no optional fields). The "simple" union of the "Variant" cannot be described by the data type definition attribute...
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2021-06-15 08:29	Thomas Merk	New Issue
2021-09-14 16:45	Jim Luth	Assigned To	=> Jeff Harding
2021-09-14 16:45	Jim Luth	Status	new => assigned
2021-09-28 16:27	Jeff Harding	Note Added: 0015052

Jeff Harding 2021-09-28 16:27 developer ~0015052	The use of the Variant adds complexity and this example should be simplified. We agreed to rework the example to avoid the unneeded complexity. Target 1.05.1