[DFDL-WG] DFDL mini-tutorials

[Cranford, Jonathan W.]

DFDL Working Group,

Attached are four mini-tutorials written by Avery Bibeau, a high school student. James Garriss of MITRE is mentoring him on a school project which includes writing tutorials for DFDL.

The idea is that these mini-tutorials could be folded into tutorials in the future more in line with the existing DFDL tutorials at www.ogf.org/dfdl.  Avery is contributing these mini-tutorials to the Working Group with the hope that he would be credited in the tutorials.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Also, below is a list of topics he's planning to work on.  If you see topics that aren't implemented in either of the implementations, please let us know, as he is only trying to write tutorials on features that he can test in the existing implementations.
* asserts
* discriminators
* input value calculations

He had planned to do a mini-tutorial on default values, but had problems testing his examples in both implementations because apparently support for default values is not quite implemented yet.

Thanks in advance,

--
Jonathan W. Cranford 
Senior Information Systems Engineer
The MITRE Corporation (http://www.mitre.org)

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