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clarify that StrcuturedTensor cannot encode null values
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rfcs/20191017-tfx-standardized-inputs.md

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is the unified in-memory representation, and **tf.Data** is the unified I/O
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StructuredTensor is equally powerful as Arrow’s StructArray so it’s able to
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represent all our logical representations.
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StructuredTensor is almost equally powerful as Arrow’s StructArray, except
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that it cannot encode null values (i.e. a missing value cannot be distinguished
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from a null value). The discussion below assumes we extend StructuredTensor so
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that nulls can be encoded.
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Because StructuredTensor is a CompositeTensor, we could imagine that I/O +
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parsing of a logical data format in a physical storage format is handled by a

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