[DFDL-WG] Fw: DFDL: Minutes from OGF WG call, 10 September 2008

[Alan Powell]

I have removed all the resolved items from the WTX document so we can 
discuss the remaining (action 003)


Alan Powell

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From:
Steve Hanson/UK/IBM at IBMGB
To:
dfdl-wg at ogf.org
Date:
10/09/2008 18:24
Subject:
[DFDL-WG] Fw:  DFDL: Minutes from OGF WG call, 10 September 2008




Open Grid Forum: Data Format Description Language Working Group

Weekly Working Group Conference Call
13:00 GMT, 10 September 2008


Attendees
Mike Beckerle (Oco) 
Steve Hanson (IBM) 

Apologies: Alan Powell (IBM) 


1. Visit actions 
Actions updated below 

2. AOB 
Next call 17th Sept 

Meeting closed, 13:40 GMT 
Actions raised at this meeting 
No
Action 


Current Actions: 
No
Action 
003
AP: Update spec from WTX document 
13/8:  All resolved issues have been added to spec. Remaining unresolved 
items need discussion 
10/9: Alan will pull out the remaining unresolved items and circulate for 
discussion next week 
004
MB: Mike will also author a new section in response to comments from Sandy 
Gao and Suman Kalia, explicitly connecting syntax with DFDL semantics 
16/7: no progress 
10/9: Mike not convinced this is necessary. Steve to talk to Sandy to see 
if it is needed for any IBM implementation that extends the existing XML 
parsing framework 
006
SH: Distribute hidden proposal 
16/7: Done. MB to review 
13/8: MB to review 
10/9: Mike has located this and will review 
007
AP: enum + expression wording 
13/8: no progress 
10/9: No update 
011
SH: Update decimal supplement 
13/8: Editorial changes needed. 
10/9: Alan to incorporate into main spec 
012
??: Update decimalCalendarScheme 
10/9: Not allocated yet 
013
MB: Description and use cases for EndofData syntax 
10/9: Steve didn't receive this mail, he now has and will review 
014
SH: Use cases for lengthKind pattern on binary fields. 
10/9: Not done 
015
AP: removed extended floats 
10/9: No update
Actions closed at this meeting: 
No
Action 
009
SH: propose algorithm unparse length lengthKind=implicit decimal 
type/binary representation 
13/8: AP has incorporated into lengthkind document. Done 
10/9: Closed 
010
AP: Document Fixed length string truncation property 
13/8: done 
10/9: Closed
033 Work items: 
No
Item 
001
String XML type (Ian P) - Apr 30, 2008 
002
Escape schemes (Ian P) - Apr 30, 2008 
003
Variables - ??, 2008 (Mike) 
004
Selectors (Suman) - Apr 30, 2008 
005
Improvements on property descriptions - ??, 2008 (All - split TBD) 
006
Envelopes and Payloads (Steve) - Apr 30, 2008 
007
(from draft 32) valueCalc (Mike) - ??, 2008 *Mostly complete* 
008
(from draft 32) Property precedence for writing (Steve) - *complete but 
under review* 
009
(from draft 32) Variable markup (Steve) - Mar 31, 2008 *proposal needs 
writing up* 
010
(from draft 32) Assertions, discriminators and choice, including 
discussion of timing option (Suman) - Mar 31, 2008 * in progress * 
011
(from draft 32) How speculative parsing works (combining choice and 
variable-occurence - currently these are separate) ??, 2008 (IBM) * in 
progress * 
012
(from draft 32) Reordering the properties discussion: move representation 
earlier, improve flow of topics ??, 2008 (Alan) * not started * 
013
(from F2F) New scoping rules 
014
(from F2F) Occurs, OccurSeparator changes 
015
(from F2F) choices and Output (Mike) 
016
(from F2F) xpath forward references (Alan) *complete* 
017
(IBM WTX review) Minor agreed updates (Alan) *complete* 
018
(IBM WTX review) Review generateNewLine (Alan) *complete* 
020
(IBM WTX review) Special value for zero seen eg 'zero'. (Steve) 
021
(IBM WTX review) 'EndOfData' changes (Alan) 
022
(IBM WTX review) Unresolvable choices - infoset changes *complete* 
023
(IBM WTX review) separatorKind=?prefix? ?infix? or ?postfix? (Alan) 
024
(IBM WTX review)  StopValue clarification (Alan)   
025
Augmented infoset and unparsing (Alan)   





Regards

Steve Hanson
Programming Model Architect
WebSphere Message Brokers
Hursley, UK
Internet: smh at uk.ibm.com
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