Re: Agenda counter-proposal

Norm Tovey-Walsh writes:

> I think Steven proposed “prefix parses” and the media type for this
> week’s agenda. There’s been quite a bit of email following.
>
> Based on that email, I offer the following counter-proposal:
>
> 1. Leave prefix parses closed.
> 2. Discuss the media type
> 3. Discuss open issues *other than* pragmas and namespaces ;-)

From a purely procedural point of view, issue #24 is currently open, so
if we want to stick with the status quo I think we need to vote to close
it.

> In particular, I’d like to discuss issues #31 and #33:
>
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/31
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/33

> I expect number #23 is in the same ballpark.

> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/23

I think there is a whole cluster of issues that all involve the lines
between conformant and non-conformant grammars and conformant and
non-conformant processors; they seem to me a cluster in the sense that
the same principles that we use to resolve one of them will often
determine or strongly suggest a resolution to others, and we have the
best chance of resolving them all consistently with each other if we
take them as a group.  The draft agendas I have been sending out for the
last few weeks identify that cluster as including

  #20 Conformance issues: what grammars to accept and reject?
  #25 Should the ixml spec distinguish between static and dynamic grammar errors? 
  #18 Conformance issue: rule names and XML names
  #23 Disallowed characters in XML
  #21 Conformance issue: failures for extraneous reasons

I agree that #31 and $33 seem to belong to this cluster.

> If, miraculously, we got through all of those, I’d be inclined to follow
> with #26, #28, but more out of interest than any belief we could hope to
> settle them tomorrow.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

> Looking at that list, and considering the progress we make in 1 hour
> increments, I’d like to propose that we pick a few issues and agree to
> have substantive discussion in email about some of them before we meet
> to resolve them.

+1

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Received on Monday, 7 February 2022 19:31:50 UTC