composite elements - error parsing about stupidedi HOT 2 CLOSED

I haven't looked at the code closely yet, but I am guessing you shouldn't pass a repeat count to component_use. You might try removing the second argument, but maybe your problem is caused by something else. Searching through the code shows this error (assuming it's an error) was also made in the 4010 and 2001 element definitions, but it's only manifesting now.

As an aside: I think of composite elements sort of like structs in C, and each field is a component. However, unlike struct in C, the fields must be simple types -- no repeating things, no nested things, etc. The simple types in X12 are ID, AN, R, Nn, etc. Repeated elements are like ordinary list types, whose elements can be either simple elements or composite elements. So you could have a repeated ID element, a repeated composite element, etc, but the repetition is not nested because the fields in a composite element cannot be repeated.

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I think this is OK now ( I am still fighting the non-deterministic problem)

when I run edi-pp -N I can see the different trees including the composite element

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