[DFDL-WG] DFDL Telcon Notes 2006-09-06

[Westhead, Martin (Martin)]

Present

Geoff Judd

Tom Sugden

Martin Westhead

Mike Beckerle

Bob McGrath

Steve Hanson

Tom Sugden

Suman Kali

Discussion

 

*	Tom's comments on scoping section

 

Key issue is that this section is structured around examples. Is this
the right approach? Makes reference access difficult. Proposal: keep
examples but restructure to move rule descriptions to the top and
examples to the bottom.

 

*	Semantics of Groups issue

 

Mike, Martin, Geoff discussed the topic. Decided to proceed to acheive
some description and at the same time look at a candidate formalism
(Definite Clause Grammar) to capture it precisely. 

-          Action: [Geoff] Put together a first pass description

-          Action: [Mike] Look at DCGs

 

*	Geoff's document on Uncertainty - suggested we need basic choice
and discriminating assertions in core. (currently it's in the
supplement)

 

 

*	Mike's slides for GGF meeting on 9/14 - planning to cover the
top-down vs. bottom up topic. What else? Suggestions included

 

-          A "How to get involved" slide - Call for a secretary and
active participants (e.g. ~1day/week)

-          Get to extensibility - Mike suggested by way of "why can't
you use XML" line of reasoning. 

-          Ask about structure of spec? Do they have examples they like?
should the examples be in it, even if that makes it a thick spec? 

-          Depending on audience people might want to hear some
specifics: E.g., example of our scoping 

-          Also show people a larger-than-one-screen example and get
their reaction. 

 

-          Strawpoll - who are attendees: raise hands for - business
community vs sci/eng community, new/first-time vs. have been tracking
DFDL. 

-          When will we be finished ? - Projected time for draft
document: 2 GGF meetings in the future is our target. (Assuming there is
a winter GGF, this would be Spring/Summer 07) 

 

 

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