January 2006 - dfdl-wg - lists.ogf.org

DFDL Telcon tomorrow 9am PST
by Westhead, Martin (Martin) 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Preliminary Agenda ------------------ 1. Arranging a US F2F in February 2. Reports from trackers 3. Review "Context" document updated from last week - see attached. 3. Review "Hidden Elements" document- see attached. Sorry (again) the documents are going out so late. Conference call instructions: Number: 1-800-664-0771 At the automated answering system, press 0 for the operator. Ask for the "Daffodil working group" call. Web Conference : https://webconferencing.avaya.com <https://webconferencing.avaya.com/> Security Code : 785343; Conference Reference: 158672

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Telcon notes 2006-1-11
by Westhead, Martin (Martin) 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Present: Bob McGrath Tara Talbott Steve Hanson Geoff Judd Martin Westhead Mike Beckerle 1. Face-2-face We are looking at arranging a F2F in San Jose, Chicago or Boston on the weeks of 13th Feb or 28th Feb. 2. Context document This was generally well received. Several issues were raised: * "DFDL Document" should be changed in the document to "DFDL Schema" * Term for describing the input is undecided candidates include: feed, source, stream * "Annotations Schema for DFDL" is used for the Schema document for the DFDL annotations * The term for the code to write data out was discussed candidates include: Unparser, Serializer or Writer * There was some confusion about the fact that the concept of "Context" was just about value store. This should be made more explicit. * Should point out that a "stacked discipline is being followed" i.e. local contexts pop on (and off) * We re-opened the discussion as to whether annotations be allowed on types. (MDW: I believe that the semantics that I am developing here make sense for annotations anywhere in the document) * Simplify the distinction between "properties" and "variables". Everything should be refered to as a "Context value" or (equivalently a "property") distinctions between predefined properties and user-defined properties should be based on name-space * There is a technical issue with establishing namespaces in annotations (and indeed the context) which needs to be addressed.

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Re: [dfdl-wg] DFDL Call tomorrow
by Jim Myers 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

FYI: Apologies, but I'll be on a plane tomorrow at conference time. Jim At 07:38 PM 1/10/2006, Westhead, Martin (Martin) wrote: >Preliminary Agenda >------------------ > > 1. Arranging a US F2F in January > 2. Reports from trackers > 3. Review Context document see attached. > >Sorry the document is going out so late. I >messed up when sending it out to the design team for final review. > >Also notice that I have added a URL and codes >for my Web conference facility. It has slide, >application sharing, and whiteboard space. I thought it might be useful. > >Conference call instructions: >Number: 1-800-664-0771 >At the automated answering system, press 0 for the operator. >Ask for the "Daffodil working group" call. > >Web Conference: ><https://webconferencing.avaya.com/>https://webconferencing.avaya.com >Web Conference: Part. Code 785343; WebConf Reference 158672 > > > James D. Myers Associate Director, Collaborative Systems, NCSA 1205 W. Clark St, MC-257 Urbana, IL 61801 217-244-1934 jimmyers(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu

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DFDL Call tomorrow
by Westhead, Martin (Martin) 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Preliminary Agenda ------------------ 1. Arranging a US F2F in January 2. Reports from trackers 3. Review "Context" document - see attached. Sorry the document is going out so late. I messed up when sending it out to the design team for final review. Also notice that I have added a URL and codes for my Web conference facility. It has slide, application sharing, and whiteboard space. I thought it might be useful. Conference call instructions: Number: 1-800-664-0771 At the automated answering system, press 0 for the operator. Ask for the "Daffodil working group" call. Web Conference: https://webconferencing.avaya.com <https://webconferencing.avaya.com/> Web Conference: Part. Code 785343; WebConf Reference 158672

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FYI: xmlecho transformation scripting language
by Mike Beckerle 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Kind of sparse, but conceptually related particularly to our extensibility and layering topics: http://www.xmlecho.org/ ...mikeb

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Notes from Telcon 2006-1-4
by Westhead, Martin (Martin) 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Present ------- Martin Westhead Tara Talbott Bob McGrath Steve Hanson Geoff Judd It was a short meeting this week. * Extensibility group - there is some material in progress that should be ready for wider circulation in a week or so. * Face-to-face - the idea of a face-to-face in North America this quarter was well received. The end of February seemed like a possible date. Location is undecided. Steve and Geoff will look into getting out here, particularly if they can combine the trip with an IBM implementation meeting. (I can definitely make a meeting in the Bay area if there was sufficient interest in that. I will find out in a couple of weeks if I can get a travel budget for my DFDL involvement. I am keen to try to get to this meeting). Martin

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First telcon of 2006
by Martin Westhead 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Agenda 1. Reports from tracker group 2. Possible face-to-face this quarter Talk to you tomorrow. Martin Conference call instructions: Time: 9am PST Number: 1-800-664-0771 At the automated answering system, press 0 for the operator. Ask for the "Daffodil working group" call.

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