Minutes ixml call 2021-03-16

ixml Meeting Tuesday 16 March 2021


Present: J, M, S, T


Agenda
Previous Actions
Community Group
Website
Specification
Test Suite
Next call


Previous Actions
ACTION: Steven to specify what happens when a name isn't an XML name
ACTION: Steven to research where to put S for attributes.
ACTION: Steven create W3C Community Group [Done]
    https://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/
    
https://www.w3.org/community/blog/2021/03/16/proposed-group-invisible-markup-community-group/ 

ACTION: All create W3C account


Announcements
J: My company dissolves this day!


Community Group
S: CG proposed: 
https://www.w3.org/community/blog/2021/03/16/proposed-group-invisible-markup-community-group/

... please log in and support. We just need one more person.
ACTION: Steven to publish CG on slack for support.


Website
M: I think I have some sort of admin access. Can I set up githib pages or 
something.
T: I think you have access to the ixml group on github, which means you can 
do stuff there.
... github publishes anything we put there as the website.
[General discussion about using github]


Specification
M: How are your spec actions?
S: Continuing ;-)
M: What was the decision on "any character"
S: Last meeting we agreed to allow [] which matches no character, and 
therefore ~[] matches any character.
J: How do you ensure that a rule is an acceptable xml name?
S: The spec says that it is the responsibility of the author.
J: What about namespapce binding?
M: Open question
T: It is on our list.


Test Generation
M: My general problem is that I have a largish FSA, and I need to make it 
deterministic in order to generate negative tests.
... It had 50k nonterminals! Ran out of memory. I need to find a way to 
generate negative test cases based on the non-terminal level,
... not at the character level. Work in progress!
S: My method for XForms data types...
M: It could produce a case that is actuall OK via another path.
... So it would have to be generate and test, to know whether it was a 
positive or negative test.
T: How would you know if you had a complete set?
M: You can measure any test suite to see its level of coverage.


Next meeting
Henceforth second Tuesday of each month,
so next 13th April. 9 Standard Michael Time, 17 europe, 16 UK
https://meet.google.com/dfz-rwpj-opq


ACTIONS


ACTION: Steven to specify what happens when a name isn't an XML name
ACTION: Steven to research where to put S for attributes.
ACTION: Steven to publish CG on slack for support.


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