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Release

Description

Usability, Community Growth, Interoperability

-          Goal Timeframe:  06-2019

-          BLOB support (DAFFODIL-1735) - enables large image file format

-          Multi-pass DFDL example - for formats with self-describing behavior

-         Additional features needed to demonstrate high degree of interoperability of the two primary DFDL implementations which are IBM's and Daffodil.

-          Tutorials on authoring DFDL schemas (R. Costello at MITRE is one person contributing to these)

-          Unparsing of hidden choices (finishing features for computed elements)

-          ... and your needed features here!

Features needed for FINSERV data formats (Cobol) and Image Files, Usability

-                   Goal Timeframe: 08-2019

-         dfdl:choiceLengthKind='explicit' BLOB support (DAFFODIL-6401735) - Cobol formats use this

-          Schematron validation rules executed by Daffodil.

enables large image file format

-         Unordered Sequences (DAFFODIL-1159)-         Debug/Trace improvements

-          ... and your needed features here!

Schema Compiler Improvements

-                   Schema compilation speed/space improvements (DAFFODIL-1444)

-         Schematron validation rules executed by Daffodil.

-          Improved developer documentation of Daffodil's internals.

-         Debug/Trace improvements

-          ... and your needed features here!

Advanced Performance

-         Goal Timeframe: before end 3Q 20192Q 2020

-         Improved SAX-event-style streaming behavior for runtime (parsing and unparsing)

... more things to be added here