I'm sure some of us on the list consider technical questions a breath of
fresh air...
> In case NormalBinding is set to PER_FACE_INDEXED (or
> PER_PART_INDEXED), does the normalIndex array of IndexedFaceSet have
> to contain a "-1" after each normal index or not?
No. -1's are only needed for PER_VERTEX or PER_VERTEX_INDEXED bindings.