[DFDL-WG] DFDL Spec 033 Completeion Items

Alan Powell alan_powell at uk.ibm.com
Tue Jul 1 12:08:32 CDT 2008


Below is the list of work items for the next version (033) of the DFDL 
specification

Draft 32:  Published 25/5/2008
valueCalc (Mike) - ??, 2008 *Mostly complete*
Remaining aspects of null/default/optionals (Alan) - Mar 31, 2008  
*complete*
2-level description of schema components, including UML (Simon) - 
*complete* 
Property precedence for writing (Steve) - *complete but under review*
Variable markup (Steve) - Mar 31, 2008 *porposal needs writing up*
Regular expressions for lengths - Mar 31, 2008 (Alan) *complete*
Bring supplements up-to-date (Steve) - Mar 31, 2008  *complete*
Assertions, discriminators and choice, including discussion of timing 
option (Suman) - Mar 31, 2008 * in progress *
How speculative parsing works (combining choice and variable-occurence - 
currently these are separate) ??, 2008 (IBM) * in progress *
Reordering the properties discussion: move representation earlier, improve 
flow of topics ??, 2008 (Alan) * not started *

Draft 33: 
Escape schemes (Ian P) - Apr 30, 2008 
String XML type (Ian P) - Apr 30, 2008 
Variables - ??, 2008 (Mike) 
Selectors (Suman) - Apr 30, 2008
Improvements on property descriptions - ??, 2008 (All - split TBD) 
Envelopes and Payloads (Steve) - Apr 30, 2008
(from draft 32) valueCalc (Mike) - ??, 2008 *Mostly complete*
(from draft 32) Property precedence for writing (Steve) - *complete but 
under review*
(from draft 32) Variable markup (Steve) - Mar 31, 2008 *porposal needs 
writing up*
(from draft 32) Assertions, discriminators and choice, including 
discussion of timing option (Suman) - Mar 31, 2008 * in progress *
(from draft 32) How speculative parsing works (combining choice and 
variable-occurence - currently these are separate) ??, 2008 (IBM) * in 
progress *
(from draft 32) Reordering the properties discussion: move representation 
earlier, improve flow of topics ??, 2008 (Alan) * not started *
(from F2F) New scoping rules
(from F2F) Occurs, OccurSeparator changes
(from F2F) choices and Output
(from F2F) xpath forward references
(IBM WTX review) Minor agreed updates 
(IBM WTX review) Review generateNewLine
(IBM WTX review) Special value for zero seen eg 'zero'. 
(IBM WTX review) 'EndOfData' changes
(IBM WTX review) Unresolvable choices - infoset changes
(IBM WTX review) separatorKind=?prefix? ?infix? or ?postfix?
(IBM WTX review)  StopValue clarification 


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