[DFDL-WG] Reminder: Agenda topics for Thursday May 8 DFDL call

[Steve Hanson]

I assume you mean Thursday May 9th, not 8th.

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 10:32 PM Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle at apache.org> wrote:

> I believe the requested agenda topic for the May 8 call was discussion of
> DFDL 2.0 and/or DFDL 1.1?
>
> Please circulate emails about topics in that area you'd like to discuss on
> the call, or generally.
>
> There is a problem called the "second system effect" I think which is when
> version 2.0 never happens because the team wants to fix every single thing
> wrong with version 1.0, and perfectionism sets in.
>
> We want to avoid that.
>
> There is also a role for what I would call "standard profiles" which are
> knobs to turn to tell a DFDL processor that you want to limit your DFDL
> usage so that your schemas will have certain standard behaviours.
>
> An example is to disallow elements to be distinguished only by namespace,
> so that the DFDL schema can be used to convert data to/from JSON or other
> data frameworks where elements have only names, and there is no notion of
> namespaces for names. We've run into this in JSON and a major integration
> of Daffodil with Apache Drill. DFDL users would benefit from a way to say
> "keep me out of namespace troubles" like that.
>
> Mike Beckerle
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