Current DFDL Activities List

• Update charter and end-date projections

• Figure out pseudo-code issue, or other way to improve semi-formal aspects of spec. (preconditions/postconditions/invariants was one suggestion).
  • MikeB

• Write section on expression language semantics
  • TBA

• Create XML Schema for DFDL annotations
  • Suman

• Create XML Schema for DFDL's XML-Schema subset (edit down the XML Schema for XML Schema to get this.)
  • Alternatives - develop restricted XML Schema processor (from free w3 open source XML Schema one)
  • TBA

• New - selectors proposal needed
  • MikeB

• New - 'use' or 'use-type-alias' proposal needed
  • Alan Powell

• New - proposal how to handle embedded XML (isXML annotation property)
  • Use case - binary or plaintext packaging surrounding XML fragment (well formed). DFDL shouldn't get in the way of processing it as XML.
    • E.g., Mime surrounding SOAP.
    • E.g., astro format
  • Note that being XML doesn't give us any ability to find the end of it. (could just do XML element, not XML document, to simplify this)
  • Do we get after the issue of how to interpret the contents or just wait for v2.0
  • TBA

• New - start supplement on advanced floating point formats
  • TBA