<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Open Grid Forum: Data Format Description
Language Working Group<br>
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Weekly Working Group Conference Call<br>
13:00 GMT, 19 November 2008<br>
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Attendees</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Steve Hanson (IBM)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mike Beckerle(Oco)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Alan Powell (IBM)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>1. Moving to XSD 1.1 as base for
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Went through MB email of 12/11/08 <b>[DFDL-WG]
XML Schema 1.1 implications for DFDL</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Agreed the following warranted further
investigation</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - open content </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">Wildcard
Element Name Namespace Flexibility</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
- needs clarification of use in dfdl</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><b> - </b>Xsd:all groups - as
a replacement for unordered groups</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial"> - </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">XPath
Usage</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial"> - </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">Type
Tables and Alternative Conditional Types</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial"> - </font><font size=2 face="Times New Roman">xsd:override</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial"> - support primitive datatypes and facets
beyond those defined in </font><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/\lref-xsp2#ref-xsp2"><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>[XML
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>5. Action Items/ Work Items.</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Didn't go through actions.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Agree a new version of the spec would
be issuesd at the end of November and all included work items would be
highlighted in work item table</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>6. AOB</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Next call 26 November</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Meeting closed, 13:10 GMT</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>003</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">AP: Update spec from WTX document</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">13/8: All resolved issues have
been added to spec. Remaining unresolved items need discussion</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">10/9: Alan will pull out the remaining
unresolved items and circulate for discussion next week</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">17/9: Doc distributed and partially
discussed</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">15/10: All updateds complete except
minlength</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/10: No update</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">12/11: Updates have been sent to wtx
to review. Will chase up for comments</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>012</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">AP/SH: Update decimalCalendarScheme</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">10/9: Not allocated yet</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">17/9: No update</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">24/9: Add calendar binary formats to
actions</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/10: No progress</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>018</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">AP: Agree padding to minimum length</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">15/10: Needs documenting</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/10: No update</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>020</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SH: Resolve </font><font size=2 face="Arial">packedDecimalSignCodes</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>
</b>behaviour depends on NumberCheckPolicy </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/10: No progress</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>023</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">MB: Review Schema 1.1</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>024</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">String XML type</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>025</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Escape schemes </font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>026</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">SH: Envelopes and Payloads</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>027</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Property precedence tables</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>028</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Variable markup</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>029</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial"> valueCalc (output length calculation)</font>
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<p><font size=3 face="sans-serif"><b>033 Work items:</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>001</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">String XML type </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Ian
P)</font><font size=2 face="Arial"> - </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">Apr
30, 2008</font><font size=3> </font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>002</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Escape schemes </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Ian
P)</font><font size=2 face="Arial"> - </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">Apr
30, 2008</font><font size=3> </font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>003</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Variables - </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">??,
2008</font><font size=2 color=blue face="Courier New"> </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Mike)</font><font size=3>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>004</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Selectors</font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">
(Suman/Alan) </font><font size=2 face="Arial">- </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">Apr
30, 2008</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>005</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Improvements on property descriptions - </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">??,
2008</font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"> (All - split TBD)</font><font size=3>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>006</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Envelopes and Payloads </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Steve)</font><font size=2 face="Arial">
- </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">Apr 30, 2008</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>007</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from draft 32) valueCalc </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Mike)</font><font size=2 face="Arial">
- </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">??, 2008</font><font size=3>
<b>*Mostly complete*</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>008</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from draft 32) Property precedence for writing
</font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Steve)</font><font size=2 face="Arial">
- </font><font size=3><b>*complete but under review*</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>009</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from draft 32) Variable markup </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Steve)</font><font size=2 face="Arial">
- </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">Mar 31, 2008</font><font size=3>
<b>*proposal needs writing up*</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>010</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from draft 32) Assertions, discriminators
and choice, including discussion of timing option </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Suman)</font><font size=2 face="Arial">
- </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">Mar 31, 2008</font><font size=3>
<b>* in progress *</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>011</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from draft 32) How speculative parsing works
(combining choice and variable-occurence - currently these are separate)
</font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">??, 2008</font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">
(IBM)</font><font size=3> <b>* in progress *</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>012</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from draft 32) Reordering the properties
discussion: move representation earlier, improve flow of topics </font><font size=2 color=red face="Arial">??,
2008</font><font size=2 face="Arial"> </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Alan)
</font><font size=3><b>* not started *</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>013</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from F2F) New scoping rules</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>014</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from F2F) Occurs, OccurSeparator changes</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>015</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from F2F) choices and Output </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Mike)</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>016</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(from F2F) xpath forward references </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Alan)
</font><font size=3><b>*complete*</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>017</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(IBM WTX review) Minor agreed updates </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Alan)
</font><font size=3><b>*complete*</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>018</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(IBM WTX review) Review generateNewLine </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Alan)
</font><font size=3><b>*complete*</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>020</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(IBM WTX review) </font><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">Special
value for zero seen eg 'zero'. </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Steve)
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>021</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(IBM WTX review) 'EndOfData' changes </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Alan)</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>022</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(IBM WTX review) Unresolvable choices - infoset
changes </font><font size=3><b>*complete*</b></font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>023</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(IBM WTX review) </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">separatorKind=’prefix’
‘infix’ or ‘postfix’ </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Alan)
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>024</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">(IBM WTX review) StopValue clarification
</font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Alan) </font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>025</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">Augmented infoset and unparsing </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">(Alan)
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>026</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hidden changes</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>027</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Add decimal supp to main spec</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>028</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Remove extended floats</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>029</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">AP: enum + expression wording </font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>030</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">AP: Add hidden changes to spec</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>031</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">All: Document EndOfData changes</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>032</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">AP: Document defineTextNumber etc</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>032</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">AP: Document textNumberRepresenation
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Alan Powell<br>
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MP 211, IBM UK Labs, Hursley, Winchester, SO21 2JN, England<br>
Notes Id: Alan Powell/UK/IBM email: alan_powell@uk.ibm.com
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