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3 Aug 2007

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<trackbot> Date: 03 August 2007

Administrivia

minutes from the 12/6 and 10/7 approved

pauld: ok, so we've added some minOccurs patterns, been resurrecting our report (re-run later!)
... yves has a hard-stop at 1:45, jon at 14:45
... so we have last call issues to answer, a databinding report to review, and a list of schemas in the wild to look at
... not being doing a great job of tracking LC issues thanks to issues with eXit
... let's look at the mail archive, the minutes from Nice and make sure we've not lost any

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/7/2/F2F-databinding-minutes.html

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/7/2/lc-issues/issues.html

pauld: this is going to be painful, but let's make sure we have minuted RESOLUTIONS for all of them

c-erh-1 : typo "casue"

RESOLUTION: accepted and closed c-erh-1

lc-i18n-1 : BOM link to Unicode FAQ

RESOLUTION: accepted and closed lc-i18n-1

lc-i18n-2 : Working with Time Zones

RESOLUTION: accepted and closed lc-i18n-2

c-i18n-3: language type to reference BCP47

RESOLUTION: accepted and closed c-i18n-3

lc-drkm-1: XPath 2.0 and node-set

RESOLUTION: accepted and closed lc-drkm-1

lc-Microsoft-3: Nested Sequences and sequences other than minOccurs=maxOccurs=1

pauld: after testing, Microsoft are right, sequence with a cardinality not of 1 isn't well implemented

<scribe> ACTION: pdowney to move sequence patterns with minOccurs or maxOccurs !=1 to Advanced [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/08/03-databinding-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-125 - Move sequence patterns with minOccurs or maxOccurs !=1 to Advanced [on Paul Downey - due 2007-08-10].

RESOLUTION: accepted and closed lc-Microsoft-3 as Advanced patterns

lc-Microsoft-2: Element References

looking at our test report:

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

is well supported

and

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

is already "Advanced"

gcowe: I agree with Microsoft

pauld: we discussed this in Nice and decided to at least add another pattern to ensure the reference was within the same schema document

jonc: doesn't everyone use this pattern?

pauld: for document/literal wrapped many tools generate this?
... would be nice if our collection report listed patterns used in a roll-up report

gcowe: they asked to remove these patterns?

pauld: moved to advanced is what I /think/ they meant
... I'm happy to move it to advanced based on what's used in the wild

jonc: we use it in our schemas/wsdls

pauld: internal ones?

jonc: I'll show you ..

pauld: BT "standard header" is an element in another namespace
... and this works well with tools?

jonc: yes!

pauld: OK haven't seen evidence this doesn't work, though being cautious I'd want to remove it too

RESOLUTION: reject lc-Microsoft-2 rejected based on testing

lc-Microsoft-5: maxOccurs=finite

<gcowe> http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/gdsc/schemaHtml/AddressTypes-v1-4-xsd-UKPostalAddressStructure.htm demonstrates finite maxoccurs

<gcowe> http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemasstandards/schemalibrary.asp

pauld: will cover these in our collection: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/collection/

OK, so people use them, but from our report they don't work well with tools

RESOLUTION: accepted lc-Microsoft-5 finite maxOccurs patterns are Advanced

lc-Microsoft-7: Mixing elements maxOccurs=1 and maxOccurs>1 ...

which examples exhibit this?

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

actually works fine

they say: "We suggest to recommend wrapped collection pattern as preferred"

we can accept that

I guess ..

and "exclude bare array pattern"

which based on testing and how widely spread the pattern is we reject

<scribe> ACTION: pdowney to add advice that BareVector doesn't allow representation of null as opposed to empty arrays [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/08/03-databinding-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-126 - Add advice that BareVector doesn\'t allow representation of null as opposed to empty arrays [on Paul Downey - due 2007-08-10].

RESOLUTION: accepted lc-Microsoft-7 in part

<gcowe> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/examples/6/09/ComplexTypeSequenceExtension/

example doesn't exhibit their issue

pauld: so we haven't tested it?
... this pattern is very common with inheritence in OO
... we could add a pattern to Advanced to capture their issue?
... I don't think we need to given sequence with maxOccurs/minOccurs != 1 is now Advanced

so their issue is covered, but the pattern stays

lc-Microsoft-8: Mixing elements maxOccurs=1 and maxOccurs>1 in the same inheritance chain

RESOLUTION: rejected lc-Microsoft-8

Review of Testing Report

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/all.html

AnyURIElement seems problematic with ZSI - they uriescape the URI

seems like the user of that tool would work around that issue, we use anyURI a *lot*

and we use ZSI ;-)

AttributeFixed failed in SOAP4R, it's an edge case - advanced?

pauld: no objections to making AttributeFixed "advanced"

AttributeOptional is Advanced

AttributeReference is definitely Advanced!

AtributeRequired fails in IBM and SOAP4R

AttributeTypeReference fails in Axis, Axis2 and others

gcowe: some of these are failing on boolean comparison

yves: will review the comparison

<gcowe> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/report_ibm_rad_java_7.0.html#AttributeRequired01 should be marked as boolean

<Yves> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/report_axis_java_1.4.html#AttributeElementNameClash01

so SOAP4R doesn't handle multiple attributes!

and we don't have specific tests for that

<Yves> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/report_axis2_java_1.1.1.html#BooleanElement04

s/BooleanAttribute fails BooleanElement works, go figure!//

AttributeOptional is expressing the default!

let's keep that basic!

Base64BinaryAttribute is advanced

<Yves> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/report_gsoap2_2.7.9f_c.html#AttributeReference01

pauld: any examples based on a complete schema haven't been tested, including blockDefault, but these are mostly harmless

<Yves> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/report_spring_java_1.0m3_castor_1.1.html#BooleanAttribute01

I raised a lc issue on Date and Time, but DateTime looks problematic

jonc: can't remove that

pauld: OK, so all dates, times and not datetime are advanced

gcowe: IBM tool seems to have a lot of issues in this area!

Decimal is advanced

ENTITY and ENTITIES are advanced, they barf and use DTDs

Axis 1.4 is behaving like a SOAP encoded toolkit, shockingly bad:

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/report_axis_java_1.4.html#ElementMaxOccursUnbounded02

Float is advanced!

that's pretty fundamental

used by lots of schema generation tools

ID and IDREF don't work ID with ZSI

Integer is Advanced

and NonPositive - we don't have good test cases for

<Yves> need to add test for overflow detection

thanks Yves, see you next time!

Language fails in ZSI, not widespreadly used - Advanced

NMTOKEN/NMTOKENS is advanced

TypeSubstitutionUsingXsiType is Advanced

all the unsigned types are advanced

jonc: NillableOptional is definitely Advanced

pauld: agreed, with strong feeling!

we discussed this to death in ISSUE-7

jonc: nillable is something people want

pauld: i don't want it ;-)

gSOAP fails with nillable

we could argue that the echo test isn't fair to gSOAP here:

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/report_gsoap2_2.7.9f_c.html#NillableElement01

OK, let's keep Nillable

OK, let's regenerate the patterns, examples and reports ..

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: pdowney to add advice that BareVector doesn't allow representation of null as opposed to empty arrays [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/08/03-databinding-minutes.html#action02]
[NEW] ACTION: pdowney to move sequence patterns with minOccurs or maxOccurs !=1 to Advanced [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/08/03-databinding-minutes.html#action01]
 
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