Re: draft agenda for ixml community group meeting Tuesday 11 January 2022

Thanks for this, Michael!  Good to have these issues on the agenda/github tracker; hopefully most of them can be resolved quickly.

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On 11 Jan 2022, 01:02 +0000, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, wrote:
> Reviewing recent discussions on the mailing list, I see some topics that
> do not appear in the agenda I sent out earlier; I have added them in
> what seem to be appropriate locations. The reason I missed them is that
> we had not opened github issues for them.
>
> So I'll take this opportunity to suggest that we discuss how we wish to
> track issues.
>
> Revised draft agenda follows.
>
>
> ixml meeting 11 January 2022
>
> When: Tuesday 11 January 2022 15:30 UTC for 1 hour
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ixml+online+meeting+January&iso=20211214T1530
>
> Where: Location: https://meet.google.com/dfz-rwpj-opq
>
> Minute taker: ? (the smart money is on Steven)
>
> IRC: the meetings will be minuted on IRC at irc://irc.w3.org:6667/%23ixml
> Details of W3C IRC use are at [1] and [2].
> [1] https://www.w3.org/wiki/InternetRelayChat
> [2] https://www.w3.org/wiki/IRC
>
> Previous minutes:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Dec/0032.html
> https://www.w3.org/2021/12/14-ixml-minutes
>
>
> AGENDA
>
> Topic: Previous Actions
>
> ACTION (2021-08-005): Tom and MSM to come with a pragma proposal.
>
> ACTION (2021-10-001): Steven to draft a mediatypes proposal (see
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/6).
>
> ACTION (2021-12-001): Steven to add his tests to github (Done; see
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/tree/master/tests/steven)
>
> ACTION (2021-12-002): Michael to write test catalog for Steven's
> tests (Done; see .../tests/steven/SP-syntaxtests-package.zip for the
> tests in the 'syntaxtests' directory and .../tests/steven/tests-SP-MSM
> for the tests in the 'tests' directory)
>
> ACTION (2021-12-003): Steven to add strings proposal to spec (Done;
> the proposal in issue 12 is in the spec of 14 December 2021)
>
> ACTION (2021-12-004): Steven implement the resolution for issue 19.
>
> ACTION (2021-12-005): Steven implement resolution for issue 18 on XML
> names.
>
>
> Topic: Release plan
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Nov/0064.html
>
> (https://www.xmlprague.cz/ says XML Prague is currently scheduled
> for 9-11 June 2022.)
>
>
> Topic: Pragmas proposal
>
> Brief summary:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2022Jan/0029.html
>
> Proposal: misc/pragmas-proposal.md in proposal-pragmas branch:
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/blob/proposal-pragmas/misc/pragmas-proposal.md
>
> Background: There is a longer discussion of the proposal in
> pragmas.md, with alternatives; discussion of requirements,
> desiderata, and design principles; and worked examples showing how
> processors might use the pragmas proposal for support of various
> kinds of additional functionality.
>
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/blob/proposal-pragmas/misc/pragmas.md
>
> See also (older discussions):
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Jun/0003 (pragmas)
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Jul/0002 (namespace decls, locality)
>
>
> Bugs: For a list of all active issues, see
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/
>
> Topic: Spec issue - eliminating distinction between @dstring and @sstring?
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2022Jan/0039.html
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/27
>
> Topic: Bugs - whitespace in ranges
>
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/5
>
> Topic: Conformance issue: which grammars to accept and reject (et al.)
>
> Several threads and open issues are relevant here:
> - Accept ixml only or ixml and XML grammars?
> - Are processors required to detect non-conformance in grammars?
> - What constitutes non-conformance in grammars? Are some grammar
> errors detectable only when exercised by the input?
> - What should the spec say about other run-time errors unrelated
> to the grammar and the input?
> - What should the spec say about non-XML characters?
> - What should the spec say about ill-formed output?
>
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/20
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/25
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/21
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/23
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Dec/0072.html
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Dec/0073.html
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Dec/0077.html
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2022Jan/0028.html
>
> Topic: Spec issue - how is ambiguity defined?
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2022Jan/0030.html
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/26
>
> Topic: Design issue - Does ixml have to match the whole input?
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Dec/0097.html
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Dec/0102.html
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Apr/0007.html
> and ensuing threads
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/24
>
> Topic: Editorial - make "empty" more explicit in examples
>
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/22
>
>
> Topic: Status of implementations
>
> Any reports?
>
>
> Topic: Statsus of testing and test suites
>
> Any reports?
>
>
> Topic: Desiderata for a schema for XML grammars
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2021Dec/0009.html
>
>
> Topic: Website
>
> https://invisiblexml.org
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/
>
>
> Topic: Next meeting
>
> Normal date for ixml meetings is the second Tuesday of each month at 15:30 UTC
>
> On the usual schedule, the February meeting would be Tuesday 8
> February, at 15:30 UTC for one hour.
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ixml+online+meeting&iso=20220208T1530
>
>
> Topic: Any other business
>
> --
> C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
> Black Mesa Technologies LLC
> http://blackmesatech.com
>