At 16.00 GMT+1 the first Mod_Survey IRC meeting started.

INTRODUCTION:

There are two alternative ways in order to build the routing/branching 
structure.
The first: to keep today's structure that involves a multipage/multifile 
architecture. This approach  would be easy to implement: it would take 
less than a week of full-time programming (as Joel said).
The second: to break up the XML notation so that several parts of a 
survey can fit into one survey file (for more information about this 
approach see http://gathering.itm.mh.se/modsurvey/pdf/suggest.pdf).

We all agree in beginning with the first approach and make it work. In 
the same time, we can think about what needs to be modified in order to 
route between "break" parts rather than survey files.

SYNTAX:

The final decision has been to implement all the three proposed syntax 
statements (see http://gathering.itm.mh.se/modsurvey/syntax.html ). The 
IF tag can get another parameter: BOOLOPERATOR, which specifies the 
boolean operation to be applied to the conditions which have to be 
evalueted by the parser. The default value of BOOLOPERATOR is "and" (but 
it can also be "or", and so on...).

Another new parameter to all question tags will be added: besides the 
ILLEGALVAL (that already exists), it will be also possible to have a 
NOTDISPLAYEDVAL parameter too. This value will be applied to the 
questions not answered because of not displayed to the interviewed 
persons in accordance with the route.

You can find all the conversation of this first meeting on gathering as 
a text file.

We also agreed to met each other another time by IRC as today, since the 
great results of this discussion:

*"joepal:* I think it sounds like we agree on most things so far."
"*Blue24:* If We would have had to write all these questions via 
mail..... a hundred mails and 2-3 days!!"
" *joepal:* And one would have forgotten what the topic was before 
reaching a decision. "

BugAnt & Silvia

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