Sorry I missed the call this past week.
Here are my comments and some in-line editing on the
I actually think the primary reason
to push this document forward is NOT extensibility, but because it is needed
to clarify the basic semantics of DFDL. That is, it allows us to make very
clear exactly what properties in the annotations are guiding the selection
of which conversion functions.
...mikeb
Mike Beckerle
STSM, Architect, Scalable Computing
IBM Software Group
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"Westhead, Martin
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These are documents 3 and 4 of a set of 3
:).
The documents are:
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bundles
– a reusable block of DFDL statements
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Conversions
– a proposal for the semantic details as to how conversions are chosen
during the operation of a DFDL parser. These semantics include a description
as to how the conversions can be extended.
These documents round off the current set
of proposals from the extensibility design team. The team has reasonable
consensus on these documents, with the (relatively trivial) exception of
bundles where there may be some outstanding issues. We believe that with
these two documents there is enough material to support the necessary extensibility.
However, we have not yet worked through enough examples of round tripping
to understand whether that is sufficiently well covered and we are expecting
that all the ideas in these documents will require refining by the group
as a whole.
I would like to discuss these two documents
on Wednesday (if possible).
Thanks,
Martin[attachment "DFDL_Conversions_4.doc"
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