XML Core WG Status and Open Actions as of 2012 April 25

The XML Core WG telcons are every other week.

Our next telcon will be 2012 May 2.


Status and open actions
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Fall TPAC
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There will be a TPAC meeting in Lyon, France in October/November:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Mar/0006

We have signed up to have a WG f2f there.

Likely to attend:  Norm, Liam, Henry, Jirka, Mohamed
Not likely to attend:  Glenn, Paul, John, Daniel


Request for xml:href et al.
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Someone (apparently from the National Research Council
of Canada) sent a message to xml-editor archived at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-editor/2012AprJun/0000
requesting that we add xml:href, xml:rel, and xml:type
attributes.

I assume the appropriate answer is to point him to
the XLink spec and suggest he use xlink:href, etc.,
but I figured its worth asking the WG to discuss this
and ask for a volunteer to draft a response.


xml-stylesheet and HTML5
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Hnery took an action to file a bug about xml-stylesheet
handling.  Done:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14689

Henry has done a lot more testing and filing of results to date.
Henry's tests are at
http://www.w3.org/XML/2011/11/ssTests/
You need to look at the README and README2 files there.

The CSS2 spec says something about styling XML with CSS.
Henry also notes http://www.w3.org/Style/styling-XML.en.html.

ACTION to Henry: File a bug against the HTML5 spec saying that
it should support styling XML with CSS.


issues with the Polyglot draft:  BOM
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Henry sent email with various potential issues at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2011Nov/0037

We discussed the point about the spec recommending [P1] the use of
the UTF-8 BOM.

[P1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/#character-encoding

Henry thinks we converged on this in email on Wednesday 11 January:
See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Jan/0007

ACTION: Henry to file an issue against Polyglot about the BOM.


issues with the Polyglot draft:  xml:space and xml:base
-------------------------------------------------------
See the minutes at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Jan/0016
for the discussion.

ACTION: Henry to draft an issue regarding xml:space and xml:base in
the Polyglot draft for WG review.


XInclude 1.1
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On 2012 February 14, we published
XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases
http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude-11-requirements/
summarizing the requirements and use cases for possible
enhancements to XInclude addressing the issues:

* @xpointer when parse="text"
* copying attributes from the xinclude element to the root
  included element

Before producing an XInclude 1.1, we will need an amended
charter as indicated by Ian at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2011Dec/0014

We did get mostly positive feedback from Chris Lilley at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-xinclude-comments/2012Feb/0000

Norm has posted something to the DocBook TC:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/201202/msg00001.html

Norm nudged the DocBook mailing list again
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/201204/msg00000.html
and did publish this a few weeks ago:
http://norman.walsh.name/2012/02/20/xinclude11

Jirka gave some more feedback at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/201204/msg00002.html
and also included it at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Apr/0002

Daniel raised a concern about there possibly not being a root
included element at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Apr/0010
and Jirka responded at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Apr/0011
We will need to consider this issue when we draft the spec.

ACTION to Liam:  Investigate what it takes to modify our charter
to allow us to work on an XInclude 1.1 Recommendation.


XML Model
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Jirka reminded us that ISO published XML Model as an international
standard.  One can buy it at
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=54793

He said that the process is in order to try to allow the ISO version
to be published for free.

We will wait to see if it becomes freely available and then update
our note to reference it.

ACTION to Jirka:  Check with the ISO working group about the
status of making the ISO version free.

Received on Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:36:34 UTC