Present Martin Westhead Tara Talbott Suman Kalia Bob McGrath Geoff Judd Steve Hanson Jim Myers 1. F2F Logistics and Agenda Logistics: aim for an 8.30 am start on March 1st. Conference phone dialin: 1- 866-AVAYA-22 Participant Code: 785343 WebConf Reference: 158672 Web conf url: https://webconferencing.avaya.com <https://webconferencing.avaya.com/> (Note that the participant code for the phone and web conference is the same.) 158672 The discussion about variables and the context seems to be largely resolved, otherwise the Agenda 2. Reports from trackers Some progress is being made on several trackers (scoping, defaults, choices...etc.) for presentation at the F2F. 3. Variables and Context We reviewed a discussion between Martin and Geoff over the semantics of variables and the context. Geoff had an important requirement that could not be handled by contexts illustrated by the following example: <xsd:element name="outerElem"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="innerElem" maxOccurs="10"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="numberOfEntries" type="xsd:int" dfdl:setGlobal="COUNT"/> <xsd:element name="repString" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" dfdl:repeatCount="$COUNT"/> </xsd:sequence> <xsd:complexType> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> With the current semantics this would fail because a global context value can only be set once. Setting in the local context would not work because COUNT would not be in the context of the repString element. A resolution to this issue was agreed involving introducing a declaration statement which could declare but not set a variable. When a local context set was used, if the identifier referred to such a declared but unassigned variable it would have the effect of assigning a value to that instead of setting the local context. In this way we could control the depth at which the context value was defined and ensure that it occurred at the right level. 4. Conversions etc. No new material here. We are still waiting for a more fully worked example using some sort of string separator. Hopefully this will be ready for the F2F.