Re: [DFDL-WG] possible editorial issue - Schema Definition Warning

13 Nov 2013

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cranford, Jonathan W.
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 8:30 AM
To: dfdl-wg@ogf.org
Subject: possible editorial issue - Schema Definition Warning
The phrase "Schema Definition Warning" only occurs once in the published 
1.0.4
spec (without respect to capitalization), in Section 2.6 Specific Errors 
Classified:
"Note: Unrecognized DFDL properties or property values 
can produce a
Schema Definition Warning and an implementation can attempt to process 
data
despite the warning."
Is the concept of a Schema Definition Warning a nascent concept already
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in the spec but not well-defined?  If so, this might be a minor issue
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an errata.  My recommendation would be that Schema Definition Warning be
defined and used consistently throughout the document.
Otherwise, I recommend that "Schema Definition Warning" be replaced in
Jonathan

Feel free to add your original point, namely that Schema Definition 
Warning only appears once, as a public comment. 

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, IBM Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh@uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848

From:   Steve Hanson/UK/IBM
To:     "Cranford, Jonathan W." , 
Cc:     "dfdl-wg@ogf.org" , dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org
Date:   05/11/2013 16:01
Subject:        Re: [DFDL-WG] possible editorial issue - Schema Definition 
Warning

RecoverableError is not appropriate here. The problem is with the schema 
not the data.

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, IBM Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh@uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848

From:   "Cranford, Jonathan W." 
To:     "dfdl-wg@ogf.org" , 
Date:   05/11/2013 15:35
Subject:        Re: [DFDL-WG] possible editorial issue - Schema Definition 
Warning
Sent by:        dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org

On second thought, instead of a Schema Definition Warning, could this be a 
recoverable error instead?   That is, would the following convey the 
originally intended meaning better?

                 Note: Unrecognized DFDL properties or property values can 
produce a
recoverable error, and an implementation can attempt to process data
despite the error.

IIRC, this section on specific errors was added *before* recoverable 
errors were added to the spec.

Thoughts?

-Jonathan

present
that warrants
the
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above sentence with simply "warning".  In this case, this is probably 
just an
editorial issue.
Very respectfully,
--
Jonathan W. Cranford
Senior Information Systems Engineer
The MITRE Corporation (http://www.mitre.org)
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