[dfdl-wg] Telcon Notes 2006-07-19

[Westhead, Martin (Martin)]

Present

 

Geoff Judd

Mike Beckerle

Steve Hanson

Suman

Bob McGrath

 


Status on combined doc

*	Revision 5 has all material except variables proposal in
*	Size of document is a problem - 150 pages and still with blank
sections.

 

Plans for OGF in DC

*	We are aiming to have a draft document ready for
submission/presentation to the GGF audience.
*	It is not clear that we can get a quorum for a face-to-face at
the same time so it may make sense to separate the     two.
*	It was suggested that we might be able to make more of
teleconference/video-conference facilities, have longer calls and
specific tasks particularly as we come to work more directly on a
document.
*	Conclusion - we will seek in-principle approval for a F2F but
hold off on planning a date.

 

Status of separators

*         This is the task of trying to find an elegant way to express
the general problem of determining the length of a structure within the
data. Martin is looking at ways to capture this but does not yet have a
solution that handles all the difficult cases.

 

Tech discussion topics

*         We had a discussion on the inclusion of attributes. The
proposal was that attributes should not be included for direct
population but a specific proposal to allow their inclusion in the data
model using references should be considered.

*         DFDL Lite - at the tail end of the meeting after some people
had dropped we started considering a different approach  to the problem
of trimming down the scope - rather than looking for tricky things we
could cut off could we look at the simplest DFDL that does something
useful and build it so that it can be grown. I will send out a separate
email on this topic.

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