Only Alan Powell and I were in attendance. I guess this call had been “officially” cancelled, so these are the unofficial notes.

1) Alan to put additional pieces into Draft 32.x and distribute to Mike (& others) by end of week so it can be reviewed in advance of meetings next week, and to provide a clean context.

2) Topics suggested for discussions next week include:

a. Variable markup – very general mechanism. Implications?

b. Combination of these 3 related topics:

i. Choice/Discriminators/Assertions

ii. Speculative Parsing description – Alan to send Mike some internal IBM initial drafts coming from IBM’s TX team

c. Property reordering in the document – this seems related to (b) also.

d. Selectors – can we simplify so we don’t overspec this.

e. Escape Schemes – need specific use cases. How general a mechanism do we need? We’re talking about a parameterizable lexical analyzer here. A really general one is very general, but is there anything that stops short of this that is general “enough”?

3) Mike to call Alan and/or Steve from Hursley A-block reception at 8:30 or thereabouts Monday morning.

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From: Mike Beckerle [mailto:mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:41 AM
To: dfdl-wg@ogf.org
Subject: DFDL: Agenda for DFDL WG call - 2008-05-14

Proposed agenda for today’s call.  Please provide additional topics.

- Draft 32 status

- Unparsing property precedence (left over from agenda of last meeting)

- plans for meetings in Hursley next week

o topics and prep needed

o logistics – Mike to go to what building, and ask for whom, etc.