Present
Geoff Judd
Tom Sugden
Martin Westhead
Mike Beckerle
Bob McGrath
Steve Hanson
Tom Sugden
Suman Kali
Discussion
* Tom's comments on scoping section
Key issue is that this section is structured around examples. Is this
the right approach? Makes reference access difficult. Proposal: keep
examples but restructure to move rule descriptions to the top and
examples to the bottom.
* Semantics of Groups issue
Mike, Martin, Geoff discussed the topic. Decided to proceed to acheive
some description and at the same time look at a candidate formalism
(Definite Clause Grammar) to capture it precisely.
- Action: [Geoff] Put together a first pass description
- Action: [Mike] Look at DCGs
* Geoff's document on Uncertainty - suggested we need basic choice
and discriminating assertions in core. (currently it's in the
supplement)
* Mike's slides for GGF meeting on 9/14 - planning to cover the
top-down vs. bottom up topic. What else? Suggestions included
- A "How to get involved" slide - Call for a secretary and
active participants (e.g. ~1day/week)
- Get to extensibility - Mike suggested by way of "why can't
you use XML" line of reasoning.
- Ask about structure of spec? Do they have examples they like?
should the examples be in it, even if that makes it a thick spec?
- Depending on audience people might want to hear some
specifics: E.g., example of our scoping
- Also show people a larger-than-one-screen example and get
their reaction.
- Strawpoll - who are attendees: raise hands for - business
community vs sci/eng community, new/first-time vs. have been tracking
DFDL.
- When will we be finished ? - Projected time for draft
document: 2 GGF meetings in the future is our target. (Assuming there is
a winter GGF, this would be Spring/Summer 07)
