[DFDL-WG] Minutes from 2007-08-08 Call

[Simon Parker]

Thanks for this update, and sorry I wasn't there.
 
In conjunction with the annotated document these notes are clear, except
for 'sp165'. Perhaps someone will recapitulate the discussion briefly at
Wednesday's conference. I think only three annotations remain:
    sp167 Absent and missing (expanded discussion on the wiki already)
    sp172 separatorType="infix"
    sp173 defaultWhenMissing (expanded discussion on the wiki already)
 
I've added another contribution to the wiki discussion on 'require'.
 
The 'length and occurs' proposal is an improvement, though I still have
reservations to discuss; likewise the 'opaque data' proposal.
 
Regards,
 Simon
 


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	MikeB, Geoff Judd, Alan Powell attended. 
	
	Continued through SP's comments. 
	
	sp37 - got it. 
	
	sp45 - agree. This whole part to be rewritten. 
	
	sp115 - ok. strict and "lax" as enums. No built-in default - we
never use defaults in the processor itself. Only in the predefined
formats. 
	
	sp118 - ok 
	
	sp123 - Proposal to simplify length, lengthKind, lengthUnits,
and also occursKind, occursPath, occursPathUnits needed. (along the
lines of byteCount, itemCount, length='delimited' enum, etc.) 
	
	sp154 - Need specific proposal to eliminate hexBinary and use
what for opaque (consider also string with encoding='bytes'. )  Or
introduce a dfdl:byteString type or dfdl:opaque type. (derived type -
just a standard name). 
	
	
	sp158 - see sp123 
	
	sp165 - needed to have composition property for enclosing groups
and or end-of-data. Regexp doesn't fix this. 
	
	
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