[dfdl-wg] More documents

[Mike Beckerle]

Sorry I missed the call this past week. Here are my comments and some 
in-line editing on the 


I actually think the primary reason to push this document forward is NOT 
extensibility, but because it is needed to clarify the basic semantics of 
DFDL. That is, it allows us to make very clear exactly what properties in 
the annotations are guiding the selection of which conversion functions. 

...mikeb

Mike Beckerle
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These are documents 3 and 4 of a set of 3 :). 
 
The documents are:
-          bundles ? a reusable block of DFDL statements
-          Conversions ? a proposal for the semantic details as to how 
conversions are chosen during the operation of a DFDL parser. These 
semantics include a description as to how the conversions can be extended.
 
These documents round off the current set of proposals from the 
extensibility design team. The team has reasonable consensus on these 
documents, with the (relatively trivial) exception of bundles where there 
may be some outstanding issues. We believe that with these two documents 
there is enough material to support the necessary extensibility. However, 
we have not yet worked through enough examples of round tripping to 
understand whether that is sufficiently well covered and we are expecting 
that all the ideas in these documents will require refining by the group 
as a whole.
 
I would like to discuss these two documents on Wednesday (if possible).
 
Thanks,
 
Martin[attachment "DFDL_Conversions_4.doc" deleted by Mike 
Beckerle/Worcester/IBM] [attachment "DFDL_Bundles_2.doc" deleted by Mike 
Beckerle/Worcester/IBM] 
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