Below is the list of work items for
the next version (033) of the DFDL specification
Draft 32: Published
25/5/2008
- valueCalc (Mike)
- ??, 2008
*Mostly complete*
- Remaining aspects of null/default/optionals
(Alan)
- Mar 31, 2008
*complete*
- 2-level description of schema components,
including UML (Simon) -
*complete*
- Property precedence for writing (Steve)
- *complete but under review*
- Variable markup (Steve)
- Mar 31, 2008
*porposal needs writing up*
- Regular expressions for lengths - Mar
31, 2008 (Alan)
*complete*
- Bring supplements up-to-date
(Steve) - Mar
31, 2008 *complete*
- Assertions, discriminators and choice, including
discussion of timing option (Suman)
- Mar 31, 2008
* in progress *
- How speculative parsing works (combining
choice and variable-occurence - currently these are separate) ??,
2008 (IBM)
* in progress *
- Reordering the properties discussion: move
representation earlier, improve flow of topics ??,
2008 (Alan)
* not started *
Draft 33:
- Escape schemes (Ian
P) - Apr
30, 2008
- String XML type (Ian
P) - Apr
30, 2008
- Variables - ??,
2008 (Mike)
- Selectors
(Suman) - Apr
30, 2008
- Improvements on property descriptions - ??,
2008 (All - split TBD)
- Envelopes and Payloads (Steve)
- Apr 30, 2008
- (from draft 32) valueCalc (Mike)
- ??, 2008
*Mostly complete*
- (from draft 32) Property precedence for writing
(Steve)
- *complete but under review*
- (from draft 32) Variable markup (Steve)
- Mar 31, 2008
*porposal needs writing up*
- (from draft 32) Assertions, discriminators
and choice, including discussion of timing option (Suman)
- Mar 31, 2008
* in progress *
- (from draft 32) How speculative parsing works
(combining choice and variable-occurence - currently these are separate)
??, 2008
(IBM) * in progress *
- (from draft 32) Reordering the properties
discussion: move representation earlier, improve flow of topics ??,
2008 (Alan)
* not started *
- (from F2F) New scoping rules
- (from F2F) Occurs, OccurSeparator changes
- (from F2F) choices and Output
- (from F2F) xpath forward references
- (IBM WTX review) Minor agreed updates
- (IBM WTX review) Review generateNewLine
- (IBM WTX review) Special
value for zero seen eg 'zero'.
- (IBM WTX review) 'EndOfData' changes
- (IBM WTX review) Unresolvable choices - infoset
changes
- (IBM WTX review) separatorKind=’prefix’
‘infix’ or ‘postfix’
- (IBM WTX review) StopValue clarification
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