[DFDL-WG] Fwd: Partial Review of Scoping Chapter

[Tom Sugden]

Oops, I sent this to the old address yesterday, so am resending to
dfdl-wg at ogf.org. -Tom

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From: Tom Sugden <tom at epcc.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sep 5, 2006 6:42 PM
Subject: Partial Review of Scoping Chapter
To: dfdl-wg at ggf.org


Hi all,

Please find attached a version of the core spec with some in-line
comments and amendments to Chapter 10 - Scoping Behaviour. I have
tried some minor rewriting of parts that confused me, but feel free to
discard these if I have got things wrong or failed to clarify matters.
Unfortunately I haven't had time to get all the way through.

I found that the examples given helped me to understand the scoping
rules. However, the consequence of featuring them is that the section
has become quite large. In our drive to produce a more manageable
specification, perhaps we should consider writing a more concise
description of the scoping rules instead, and then referencing a
supplementary document containing the current examples?

I was curious about how this might look, so I made a quick start:

    http://www.writely.com/Doc.aspx?id=dc5kwkp4_444fsm9

But I'd like to discuss the matter and decide whether it is
appropriate to proceed.

On a different subject, I've recently started using Writely
(www.writely.com), which is a simple on-line word processor with some
really neat collaborative tools. We might consider using this when
multiple editors want to work on the same part of the spec
concurrently. If anybody would like to edit the above draft, let me
know and I can add you as a "document collaborator".

Cheers,
Tom
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