pucke-dev opened a new pull request, #49554:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/49554

   ### Rationale for this change
   
   The current documentation contains a technical inconsistency in the validity 
bitmap values for column 4.
   
   According to the Arrow specification:
   
   > In Arrow, a dedicated buffer, known as the validity (or “null”) bitmap, is 
used alongside the data indicating whether each value in the array is null or 
not: a value of 1 means that the value is not-null (“valid”), whereas a value 
of 0 indicates that the value is null.
   
   In the existing example, the validity bitmap for the third row of the 
variable-size binary child array is incorrectly set to 1, despite the row being 
null. This PR corrects that bit to 0 to align with the fixed-size primitive 
child array and the overall Arrow memory layout standards.
   
   ### What changes are included in this PR?
   
   Updated the struct-diagram.svg
   
   ### Are these changes tested?
   
   No
   
   ### Are there any user-facing changes?
   
   No


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