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1. Go through actions.</font><font size=3> <br>
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2. LengthKind on Sequences and choices.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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LengthKind on sequences and choices and their parent element has proved
confusing to new users of DFDL. It is proposed that lengthKind is removed
from groups and only allow it to be set on parent element. See email from
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3. Discuss UnorderedInitated email from SH</font><font size=3> <br>
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4. Infoset codepage and encoding</font><font size=3> <br>
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The spec does not say what codepage and encoding is used for string fields.</font><font size=3>
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5. AOB</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Next version (034)</font><font size=3> <br>
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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif"><b>Current Actions:</b></font>
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<td width=92%><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Action </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="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>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">16/1: proposal distributed and discussed.
Will be redistributed</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">21/1: add locale, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">04/02: changed from locale to specific
properties</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">18/2: Need more investigation of ICU
strict/lax behaviour.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: Not discussed</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: AP to complete asap once the
ICU strict/lax behaviour is understood. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: No progress</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>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">10/12: added how to decide to overpunch
and sign position</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">11/02: proposal largely agreed. SH to
make minor changes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">18/02: AP to document unsigned type
behaviour</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">25/02: no progress</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: Not discussed</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: SH to complete last remaining
issue, which is the behaviour when logical type is signed/unsigned and
the physical type is unsigned/signed.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: SH had identified a problem with
definition values and types in the infoset and will email proposal. DG
to be asked to accelerate action 032 to see if helps</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"><No owner> String XML type</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: Not discussed</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: Need to allocate owner. Work
is to describe the semantics of using dfdl:representation="xml"
to model a well-formed XML fragment in an overall non-XML document described
by a DFDL schema.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: As no resource availbel to progress
this action agreed to defer from V1. Will close next week if no objections</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>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: Not discussed</font><font size=2 face="Arial">
explicity, but recursive use of DFDL is tied up with this</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">22/04: Two aspects. Firstly compositional
- do sufficient mechanisms exist to model an envelope with a payload that
varies. Secondly markup syntax - this might be defined in the envelope.
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">The second of these is very much tied up
with the variable markup action 028, so will be considered there. SH to
verify the composition aspect.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">29/04: SH and AP working on proposal. related
to Action 028</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">SH: Property precedence tables</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: Not discussed</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: Two things missing from the existing
precedence trees. Firstly, does not show alternates (eg, initiator v initiatorkind).
Secondly, need a tree per concrete DFDL object (eg, element). SH to update.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: No progress</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">SH: Variable markup </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: Discussed briefly at end of call,
IBM to see whether there any use cases that require recursive use of DFDL.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">15/04: Use case was distributed and
will be discussed on next call.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: The use case in question is EDI
where the terminating markup for the payload segments is defined in the
ISA envelope segment. The markup is modelled as an element of simple type
where the allowable markup values are defined as enums on the type. But
we need to handle two cases - firstly where the envelope is present, so
the value used by the payload is taken from the envelope. Secondly where
only the payload is present. Here we need a way of scanning for all the
enum values, and adopting the one we actually find, when parsing. And using
a default when unparsing. SH to explore use of a DFDL variable, where the
variable has a default, but also has a type that is the same as the markup
element - that way we get to use the enums without defining everything
twice.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">29/04: SH and AP working on proposal.</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">MB: valueCalc (output length calculation)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: Not discussed</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: Action allocated to MB, this
is to complete the work started at the Hursley WG F2F meeting.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: No progress</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>032</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">DG: Investigate compatibility between DFDL
infoset and XDM</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: No update</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: No update</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: No update</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>033</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">AP/TK: Assert/Discriminator semantics. AP
to document. TK to check uses of discriminator besides choice.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: In progress within IBM</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: Waiting for TK to return from
leave to complete. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: TK has sent examples shown need
for discriminators beyond choice. Agreed. MB to respond to TK </font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>036</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="Arial">SH: Provide use case for floating component
in a sequence</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">08/04: Raised</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">15/04: Use case sent and discussed.
SH to do further investigation</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: IBM feedback from WTX team is
that alternate suggested ways of modelling the EDI floating NTE segment
have significant usability issues. The DFDL principle is that for a problem
that can be expressed as two-layered, then two DFDL models are needed.
The EDI NTE segment does not fall into this though, as its use is
on a per sequence basis. Ongoing. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: Agreed that need to be in V1.
SH to make a proposal</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>037</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">All: Approach for XML Schema 1.0 UPA
checks.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: Several non-XML models, when
expressed in their most obvious DFDL Schema form, would fail XML Schema
1.0 Unique Particle Attribution checks that police model ambiguity. And
even re-jigging the model sometimes fails to fix this. Note this is equally
applicable to XMl Schema 1.1 and 1.0. While the DFDL parser/unparser can
happily resolve the ambiguities, the issue is one of definition. If an
XSD editor that implements UPA checks is used to create DFDL Schema, then
errors will be flagged. DFDL may have to adopt the position that: </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">a)DFDL parser/unparser will not implement
some/all UPA checks (exact checks tbd)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">b) XML Schema editors that implement
UPA checks will not be suitable for all DFDL models</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">c) If DFDL annotations are removed,
the resulting pure XSD will not always be valid (ie, the equivalent XML
is ambiguous and can't be modelled by XML Schema 1.0)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ongoing in case another solution can
be found.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: Will ask DG and S Gao for oppinion
before closing</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>038</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">MB: Submit response to OMG RFI for non-XML
standardization</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: First step is for MB to mail
the OGF Data Area chair to say that we want to submit</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: MB has been in contact with OMG
and will sunbit dfdl.</font>
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<div align=center><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>039</b></font></div>
<td><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SKK: Approach for creating Schema-For-DFDL
xsds. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">22/04: Resolve issue around multiple
declarations needed for DFDL properties, perhaps using MB's meta approach</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">29/04: Don't like qualified attributes
in long form. SKK to check there are no code gen implications, eg EMF.</font></table>
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