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

[Mike Beckerle]

Yes. 9th. Not 8th.

On Wed, May 8, 2024, 4:08 AM Steve Hanson <smhdfdl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> Apache Daffodil PMC | daffodil.apache.org
>> OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair |
>> www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/standards/dfdl/dfdl
>> Owl Cyber Defense | www.owlcyberdefense.com
>>
>>
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