Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 17 October 2006

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http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/6/10/24-databinding-minutes.html

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                                   - DRAFT -

                         Databinding WG Teleconference
                                  24 Oct 2006

   Agenda

   See also: IRC log

Attendees

   Present
          Jon Calladine (BT)
          Paul Downey (BT)
          Otu Ekanem (BT)
          Yves Lafon (W3C)
          Vladislav Bezrukov (SAP AG)
          Hugo Haas (Yahoo!) (Observer)

   Regrets
          George Cowe (Origo Services Limited)

   Chair
          pauld

   Scribe
          pauld

Contents

     * Topics
         1. Administrivia
         2. Status of Deliverables
         3. ISSUE-2: test suite
         4. ISSUE-12: identifying a conformant schema
         5. ISSUE-68: xs:import of Schema 1.0 namespace
         6. ISSUE-10: Mapping Element and Type names
     * Summary of Action Items
     _________________________________________________________________

   <trackbot> Date: 24 October 2006

   <scribe> Scribe: pauld

Administrivia

   minutes from the 17th approved

   <Yves> http://www.w3.org/2006/10/17-databinding-minutes.html

   WG welcomes Hugo Haas from Yahoo! as an observer

   discussion of interop event

   yves: having people in a room would help socialisation and crafting of
   tests

   jonc: getting end users involved would be a challenge

   pauld: getting vendors to participate has been difficult
   ... organising around the W3C Workshop on Enterprise Services might
   help

   hugo: an interop event sounds appealing, not too high cost from
   vendors and may help build test cases

   yves: also a mini-TP around then in Boston, could be co-located

   pauld: OK, let's consider an event early 2007 in Boston, we can always
   cancell if we get no interest

Status of Deliverables

   pauld: built some "traffic lights" to schema validate our instance
   documents, and if the detected patterns match the expected status:

   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/examples/6/09/

   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/patterns/6/09/

   pauld: can we change the normative XPaths without the change being
   considered substantive?

   yves: we will at least have the text?

   pauld: we have very little text as the XPaths are normative

   yves: sounds like we would have to go back to Last Call

   pauld: will ensure the XPaths are correct, then!

   pauld: will call for a vote to go to Last Call for Basic on Tuesday

   pauld: can we publish a first WD of Advanced?

   vlad: sections 2.1 and 2.2 are missing

   pauld: OK, that looks editorial, I'll fix./

   pauld: hearing no objections, we'll plan to publish first WD of
   Advanced alongside LC of Basic

ISSUE-2: test suite

   pauld: worked on the test client, still Perl, still works on separate
   files

   hugo: took a brief look, seems sensible approach

   otu: took a look at WCF, svcgen no longer generates a server
   databinding, only interfaces. Suggested we use Visual Studio 2005, but
   you want a scripted interface.

   otu: also started to look at Python ZSI, struggling with lack of
   documentation

   pauld: WCF still generates a client databinding no?

   otu: we can turn this inside out

   yves: may get time to work on XMLUnit later this week

   pauld: will publish test suite page and ping WSO2 for assistance

ISSUE-12: identifying a conformant schema

   pauld: there's a stylesheet on the bottom of the patterns page, should
   work on Schemas and WSDLs (though not tried many WSDLs)

   pauld: we still need to follow schema import and include and detect
   UTF-8 etc

   yves: if we think the pattern detector we have works, but will still
   look at an alternative approach

   pauld: could still be useful, but let's make it lower priority than
   XMLUnit

   pauld: anticipate having to write some non-XSLT code to check some of
   our non-XPath based assertions

ISSUE-68: xs:import of Schema 1.0 namespace

   pauld: submitted evidence on why it's not Basic pattern, but is it
   Advanced?

   vladislav: SAP implementations now support this

   pauld: so it sounds advanced, let's see if Priscilla comes up with any
   new info on why it might be a bad idea before closing it.

ISSUE-10: Mapping Element and Type names

   vladislav: we have had limitations mapping Unicode characters to
   language constructs
   ... also we have length limitations

   hugo: do you have a sense of a "safe" character set?

   <Yves> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/issues/10/

   pauld: difficult - Fortran or COBOL might offer a lowest common
   denominator, but no obvious lowest subset exists, but we seem to be
   moving towards Python's subset
   ... plan to close this issue based on testing next week

   <scribe> ACTION: vladislav to report on naming convention supported by
   his toolkit [recorded in
   http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-databinding-minutes.html#action01]

   <trackbot> Created ACTION-87 - Report on naming convention supported
   by his toolkit [on Vladislav Bezrukov - due 2006-10-31].

Summary of Action Items

   [NEW] ACTION: vladislav to report on naming convention supported by
   his toolkit [recorded in
   http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-databinding-minutes.html#action01]

   [End of minutes]

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