Open Grid Forum: Data Format Description Language Working Group Weekly Working Group Conference Call 14:00 GMT, 16 July 2008 Attendees Mike Beckerle (Oco) Steve Hanson (IBM) Alan Powell (IBM) 1. Go through actions status updated below 003: AP is updating spec from WTX review and will produce a list of remaining unresolved items 007: Discussion about how expressions can be allowed in enumerated fields such as encoding. Simplest would be to convert enum properties to string but that wouldn't allow schema validation to catch errors. 2. Version 003 work items The list of work items had been distributed and was discussed. Items requiring discussion will be converted to actions. Work items will also be tracked in this meeting. 3. Update to Decimal supplement SH had distributed an updated proposal which was discussed. General agreement on the changes with the main point of discussion being the use of numberCheckPolicy to control the behaviour of the new numberZeroRep property. MB to review 4. Discuss lengthKind issues identified by WTX Not discussed 5. Hidden proposal Not discussed 6. AOB Agreed an additional weekly WG call is needed. MB to set up Meeting closed, 15:00 GMT Actions raised at this meeting No Action 008 MB: set up additional WG call Current Actions: No Action 001 MB: update outputvalueCalc doc Done 002 AP: Send out updated work item list 16/7: done 003 AP: Update spec from WTX document 16/7: in progress 004 MB: Mike will also author a new section in response to comments from Sandy Gao and Suman Kalia, explicitly connecting syntax with DFDL semantics 16/7: no progress 005 AP: update spec with unparsing and augmented infoset. 16/7: no progress. Converted to work item 006 SH: Distribute hidden proposal 16/7: Done. MB to review 007 AP: enum + expression wording 16/7: no progress 033 Work items: No Item 001 String XML type (Ian P) - Apr 30, 2008 002 Escape schemes (Ian P) - Apr 30, 2008 003 Variables - ??, 2008 (Mike) 004 Selectors (Suman) - Apr 30, 2008 005 Improvements on property descriptions - ??, 2008 (All - split TBD) 006 Envelopes and Payloads (Steve) - Apr 30, 2008 007 (from draft 32) valueCalc (Mike) - ??, 2008 *Mostly complete* 008 (from draft 32) Property precedence for writing (Steve) - *complete but under review* 009 (from draft 32) Variable markup (Steve) - Mar 31, 2008 *proposal needs writing up* 010 (from draft 32) Assertions, discriminators and choice, including discussion of timing option (Suman) - Mar 31, 2008 * in progress * 011 (from draft 32) How speculative parsing works (combining choice and variable-occurence - currently these are separate) ??, 2008 (IBM) * in progress * 012 (from draft 32) Reordering the properties discussion: move representation earlier, improve flow of topics ??, 2008 (Alan) * not started * 013 (from F2F) New scoping rules 014 (from F2F) Occurs, OccurSeparator changes 015 (from F2F) choices and Output (Mike) 016 (from F2F) xpath forward references (Alan) 017 (IBM WTX review) Minor agreed updates (Alan) 018 (IBM WTX review) Review generateNewLine (Alan) 020 (IBM WTX review) Special value for zero seen eg 'zero'. (Steve) 021 (IBM WTX review) 'EndOfData' changes (Alan) 022 (IBM WTX review) Unresolvable choices - infoset changes 023 (IBM WTX review) separatorKind=?prefix? ?infix? or ?postfix? (Alan) 024 (IBM WTX review) StopValue clarification (Alan) 025 Augmented infoset and unparsing (Alan) Alan Powell MP 211, IBM UK Labs, Hursley, Winchester, SO21 2JN, England Notes Id: Alan Powell/UK/IBM email: alan_powell@uk.ibm.com Tel: +44 (0)1962 815073 Fax: +44 (0)1962 816898 Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU