Fw: DFDL: Minutes from OGF WG call, 10 September 2008
Open Grid Forum: Data Format Description Language Working Group Weekly Working Group Conference Call 13:00 GMT, 10 September 2008 Attendees Mike Beckerle (Oco) Steve Hanson (IBM) Apologies: Alan Powell (IBM) 1. Visit actions Actions updated below 2. AOB Next call 17th Sept Meeting closed, 13:40 GMT Actions raised at this meeting No Action Current Actions: No Action 003 AP: Update spec from WTX document 13/8: All resolved issues have been added to spec. Remaining unresolved items need discussion 10/9: Alan will pull out the remaining unresolved items and circulate for discussion next week 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 10/9: Mike not convinced this is necessary. Steve to talk to Sandy to see if it is needed for any IBM implementation that extends the existing XML parsing framework 006 SH: Distribute hidden proposal 16/7: Done. MB to review 13/8: MB to review 10/9: Mike has located this and will review 007 AP: enum + expression wording 13/8: no progress 10/9: No update 011 SH: Update decimal supplement 13/8: Editorial changes needed. 10/9: Alan to incorporate into main spec 012 ??: Update decimalCalendarScheme 10/9: Not allocated yet 013 MB: Description and use cases for EndofData syntax 10/9: Steve didn't receive this mail, he now has and will review 014 SH: Use cases for lengthKind pattern on binary fields. 10/9: Not done 015 AP: removed extended floats 10/9: No update Actions closed at this meeting: No Action 009 SH: propose algorithm unparse length lengthKind=implicit decimal type/binary representation 13/8: AP has incorporated into lengthkind document. Done 10/9: Closed 010 AP: Document Fixed length string truncation property 13/8: done 10/9: Closed 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) *complete* 017 (IBM WTX review) Minor agreed updates (Alan) *complete* 018 (IBM WTX review) Review generateNewLine (Alan) *complete* 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 *complete* 023 (IBM WTX review) separatorKind=?prefix? ?infix? or ?postfix? (Alan) 024 (IBM WTX review) StopValue clarification (Alan) 025 Augmented infoset and unparsing (Alan) Regards Steve Hanson Programming Model Architect WebSphere Message Brokers Hursley, UK Internet: smh@uk.ibm.com Phone (+44)/(0) 1962-815848 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
I have removed all the resolved items from the WTX document so we can discuss the remaining (action 003) 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 From: Steve Hanson/UK/IBM@IBMGB To: dfdl-wg@ogf.org Date: 10/09/2008 18:24 Subject: [DFDL-WG] Fw: DFDL: Minutes from OGF WG call, 10 September 2008 Open Grid Forum: Data Format Description Language Working Group Weekly Working Group Conference Call 13:00 GMT, 10 September 2008 Attendees Mike Beckerle (Oco) Steve Hanson (IBM) Apologies: Alan Powell (IBM) 1. Visit actions Actions updated below 2. AOB Next call 17th Sept Meeting closed, 13:40 GMT Actions raised at this meeting No Action Current Actions: No Action 003 AP: Update spec from WTX document 13/8: All resolved issues have been added to spec. Remaining unresolved items need discussion 10/9: Alan will pull out the remaining unresolved items and circulate for discussion next week 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 10/9: Mike not convinced this is necessary. Steve to talk to Sandy to see if it is needed for any IBM implementation that extends the existing XML parsing framework 006 SH: Distribute hidden proposal 16/7: Done. MB to review 13/8: MB to review 10/9: Mike has located this and will review 007 AP: enum + expression wording 13/8: no progress 10/9: No update 011 SH: Update decimal supplement 13/8: Editorial changes needed. 10/9: Alan to incorporate into main spec 012 ??: Update decimalCalendarScheme 10/9: Not allocated yet 013 MB: Description and use cases for EndofData syntax 10/9: Steve didn't receive this mail, he now has and will review 014 SH: Use cases for lengthKind pattern on binary fields. 10/9: Not done 015 AP: removed extended floats 10/9: No update Actions closed at this meeting: No Action 009 SH: propose algorithm unparse length lengthKind=implicit decimal type/binary representation 13/8: AP has incorporated into lengthkind document. Done 10/9: Closed 010 AP: Document Fixed length string truncation property 13/8: done 10/9: Closed 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) *complete* 017 (IBM WTX review) Minor agreed updates (Alan) *complete* 018 (IBM WTX review) Review generateNewLine (Alan) *complete* 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 *complete* 023 (IBM WTX review) separatorKind=?prefix? ?infix? or ?postfix? (Alan) 024 (IBM WTX review) StopValue clarification (Alan) 025 Augmented infoset and unparsing (Alan) Regards Steve Hanson Programming Model Architect WebSphere Message Brokers Hursley, UK Internet: smh@uk.ibm.com Phone (+44)/(0) 1962-815848 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 -- dfdl-wg mailing list dfdl-wg@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/dfdl-wg 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
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