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Thanks Ben - your suggestion (an option on how to group, enabling existing behaviour to be preserved) sounds good.
If given the option on how to group where a split-grouping is opted for, I would say creating two separate global elements (one for import, one for export parameters) makes sense, as opposed to splitting the generated XSDs / namespaces etc.
XML global elements are the starting point / anchor from which to match a message with it's definition - so this would work in terms of validation too.
Idea / RFE Review. Thank you for taking the time to raise this enhancement request, which we agree would improve the product... As the Idea raiser will be very well aware, this area of discovery capability within the Toolkit is notorious for its needs in the area of backward compatability, so we would need to be cautious in our implementation choices to ensure that existing users are not adversely impacted. That said, the suggestion sounds sensible (perhaps let the user choose to group the import and export together or not in order to preserve both behaviours?) and we will certainly monitor this idea for comments from other users to see if there is a wider market need. Status of the idea is updated to Future Consideration.