1.        045  - Disciminators
Continue discussion of WTX semantics.


2.        Does the parser/serializer have to start on a global element?

Agree removal of dfdl:documentRoot property

Need Stephanie and Suman to agree.

3. LengthUnits = 'bits'

Review Mike's proposal

4. Semantics of length=0
Need to go through each of the lengthKinds to understand the interaction of length=0, nil handling and defaults.

ACTION


5. Byte Order Mark and Unicode signature
Tim has investigated ICU behavior and it looks OK


Before we conclude that the spec is OK as it stands, we should consider whether it is correct to treat a BOM as a character. The Unicode standard makes a clear distinction between characters and BOMs:
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch02.pdf section 2.13 ( don't skip the first couple of paragraphs )
http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom1


6. Go through remaining actions


7. Draft 037 review

Please submit comments by Monday 21st Dec


Agree terminology


Agreed that:
-A schema has components which have dfdl annotations

.- Dfdl annotations have properties (same as XSDL)  but need to distinguish between format/representation properties and other properties such as name, ref, selector.


Not discussed.
-The data/data stream/message has elements/fields

-The infoset has items



8. Plan to finish DFDL v1 Schedule
Activity
Schedule
Who
Complete Action items
             - 18 Dec 2009
 WG
Complete Spec Write up work items
            – 23 Dec 2009
AP
Restructure and complete specification
              - 23 Dec 2009
AP
Issue Draft 038
23 Dec 2009
WG review WG review
7 Dec – 08 Jan 2010
WG
Incorporate review comments
4 Jan - 29 Jan 2010
AP +
Issue Draft 039
15 Jan 2010
Incorporate review comments
4 Jan - 29 Jan 2010
AP +
Issue Draft 040
29 Jan 2010
Initial OGF Editor Review Initial Editor review
1 Feb - 1 Mar 2010
OGF
Initial GFSG review
1 Feb - 1 Mar 2010
Issue Draft 041
1 Mar 2010
OGF Public Comment period (60 days)
1 Mar - 30 Apr 2010
OGF
OGF 28 Munich
15-19 March 2010
Incorporate comments Incorporate comments
28 May 2010
Issue Draft 042
28 May 2010
Final OGF Editor Review Final  Editor review
June  2010
OGF
final GFSG review
June  2010
Issue Final specification
30 June 2010
Publish proposed recommendation
1 July 2010
Grid recommendation process
1 Jan - 1 April 2011



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