[DFDL-WG] DFDL V1 Draft 039 is available

[Steve Hanson]

Alan

I've marked up a hard copy of draft 039 and will drop it round.  The 
review has highlighted a couple of issues that need resolving by the WG on 
this week's call.

1) Name of property dfdl:textNumberRepresentation is not consistent with 
dfdl:binaryNumberRep, dfdl:binaryFloatRep, etc.

2) The dfdl:numberPattern etc properties that have been moved from the 
defunct dfdl:textNumberFormat annotation to dfdl:element etc should be 
called dfdl:textNumberPattern etc. Otherwise users will think they apply 
to binary numbers too.

3) In section 14.3 on sequences, there are several sub-sections that talk 
about parsing according to different ways of specifying length (ie, 
lengthKind). But dfdl:sequence no longer carries dfdl:lengthKind so I 
think these sub-sections are not in the right place.  I think they should 
be in section 12, under the correct 12.3.x lengthKind sub-section.

4) Section 19 on built-in specifications. Given that we don't have any for 
public comment phase we should reword this section.

We also need to make sure we have done a mailing list final call for 
input.

I also have the opportunity to update the OGF 28 session description 
before the printed program is finalised. The original session description 
assumed we would be in Public Comment phase so the WG needs to agree on 
some adjusted wording that reflects the slippage, which we should do on 
this week's call.

Regards

Steve Hanson
Programming Model Architect, WebSphere Message Broker,
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL WG
Hursley, UK,
Internet: smh at uk.ibm.com,
Phone (+44)/(0) 1962-815848



From:
Alan Powell/UK/IBM at IBMGB
To:
dfdl-wg at ogf.org
Date:
24/02/2010 17:22
Subject:
[DFDL-WG] DFDL V1 Draft 039 is available
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All 

DFDL V1 draft 038 is available at 
https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.dfdl-wg/docman.root.current_0/doc15889 


There have again been many changes listed below including many editorial 
updates to make the specification more readable. 
The DFDL expression language and DFDL regular expression language sections 
have been moved towards the end as they are for more advanced users. 
All highlighted changes are for the changes made in this draft only and do 
not include changes made in previous drafts. 

Unfortunately I have had significant problems with MS Word crashes while 
creating this draft which have resulted the formatting going haywire in 
some places. I have corrected the major problems but many minor ones still 
exist. In particular all the cross references have lost the number of the 
section they reference. This will be fixed in the next draft. 

Please send comments to me by March 3rd 

Latest entry at the top please 
Version
Author/ 
Contributor
History
Date(yyyy-mm-dd)
039
Alan Powell
Added numberPattern section. 
Added defaulting of complex types 
Changed missingValueInitiatorPolicy to 'required' and 'prohibited' 
Changed separatorPolicy to 'required' 'supressed' 'supressedAtEnd' 
Added defaulting choices. 
Many editorial changes 
Added lengthKind delimited for 'binary' 'packed/bcd' 
Clarified empty sequqnce wording 
Reworded infoset round tripping. 
Moved DFDL Expression and regular expression section to near back os spec. 

Added treatment of unrepresentable characaters to infoset section. 
Clatified relative path expressions on global declarations. 
Representation assumed to be text for string and binary for hexBinary 
Change alignment to be 1 based. 
docmentFinalTerninatorCanBeMissing and docmentFinalSeparatorCanBeMissing 
change to dfdl:format only 
Added UPA checks 
Added Ambiguity checks 
Removed defineTextNumberFormat, TextNumberFormat and textNumberFormatRef 
and moved properties in line 
Revised 'Resolving points of uncertainty' and discriminators 
Clarified Nan and infinity values 
2010-02-24


  
Regards 
  
Alan Powell 
  
Development - MQSeries, Message Broker, ESB 
IBM Software Group, Application and Integration Middleware Software 
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