draft agenda for ixml community group call 9 January 2024

(Apologies for the tardy and hastily crafted agenda.)

ixml meeting 9 January 2024

When: Tuesday 9 January 2024 15:00 UTC for 1 hour
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ixml+online+meeting&iso=20231212T1500

Where: https://meet.google.com/dfz-rwpj-opq 

Regrets: Michael and Bethan give regrets for 9 January.
  
Minute taker: SP (or he being absent JL, as MSM has given regrets)

IRC: the meetings will be minuted on IRC at [1].  Details of W3C IRC
use are at [2] and [3], hints for using RRSAgent at [4] and [5].

[1] irc://irc.w3.org:6667/%23ixml
[2] https://www.w3.org/wiki/InternetRelayChat
[3] https://www.w3.org/wiki/IRC
[4] https://www.w3.org/2002/03/RRSAgent
[5] https://w3c.github.io/scribe2/scribedoc.html

Previous minutes:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2023Dec/0003.html
https://www.w3.org/2023/12/12-ixml-minutes.html

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Topic: Review of agenda
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    0 Identify minute-taker
    1 Review of action items
    2 Status reports
    3 Review, discussion, resolution of issues
    4 Other topics
    5 Next meeting (and next scribe)
    6 Any other business

Details below.

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Topic: Previous Actions
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ACTION 2023-01-10-f: Norm and Michael to do a bit of revision to
                     improve the draft documentation of the XML
                     vocabulary (see #137) for further discussion.

ACTION 2023-10-17-a: SP to document the modified IRI/URI grammar to
                     make clearer why you might want it / need it, in
                     preference to the literal transcription of the
                     grammars in the RFCs.

ACTION 2023-11-28-a: SP to make pull request adding his proposed
                     addition to section 3.3 ("Names are
                     case-sensitive.").

ACTION 2023-11-28-b: SP as group chair to ask W3C to publish the ixml
                     spec as report.

ACTION 2023-11-28-c: SP to review the EBNF to BNF document.

ACTION 2023-11-28-e: MSM to write a proposal regarding full stops in
                     names.

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Topic:  Status reports
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Topic:  Status of implementations

Topic:  Status of testing and test suites

See also test-suite related issues below.


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Topic:  publication plans
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Web Conference reviewers have inquired about our publication plans:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2023Mar/0000.html

Rules: https://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#how-do-we-publish-a-report

If no discussion is needed, this item may be skipped.


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Topic:  Review and resolution of bug reports and technical issues
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NB The list below shows only issues open as of the time this agenda
was last revised.  It does not show any issues raised only in email:
if you wish an issue to be discussed, please open an issue in Github.

For all open issues, see https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/

* Issues against the 1.0 spec

None.

* Issues relating to test suite

Topic:  Pull request #224 Mitigating ambiguity in mod357

Topic:  Pull request #225 Fix errors in ixml-spec-grammar performance test for XPath

Topic:  Pull request #226 Additional result for performantce/xpath xsltforms-3

Topic:  Pull request #227 Extraneous #D in performance/oberon expected results

* Issues relating to Web site and ancillary documents

Topic:  Issue #139 Sample grammars for IRIs and URIs

        Awaiting prose from SP (action 2023-10-17-a).
        
        See proposal at
        https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2023Mar/0004.html

        Revised proposal from Steven:
        https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2023Jun/0009.html

Topic:  Issue #137 Document the XML tag set of ixml grammars

        https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2023Jan/0003.html
        https://ixml.nwalsh.com/xmlguide/

        Awaiting progress on action 2023-01-10-f (Norm and Michael).


* v.Next issues

Topic:  Issue #203 Spec should say nonterminals are case-sensitive

        Awaiting pull request (action 2023-11-28-a).
        
Topic:  Issue #202 Spec should say Unicode version is implementation-defined

        Awaiting proposal (but no action was assigned?).

Topic:  Issue #199 Require whitespace between prolog and first rule?

        Awaiting pull request?

Topic:  Issue #192 Normalizing line endings in ixml inputs

        See thread beginning at
        https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2023Oct/0021.html

Topic:  Issue #75 Combining grammars (for v.Next)

        https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2023Jan/0002.html

        We need to discuss the use-cases document proposed by Norm.
        MSM proposes the functionality of RNG as a minimum.

Topic:  Issue #168 Dynamic naming / name from the input data 

        See discussion document from John:
        https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2023May/0005.html

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Topic: Other topics
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Topic:  Plans for further work

Topic: Website
  
     https://invisiblexml.org
     https://github.com/invisibleXML/


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Topic: Next meeting
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Normal date and time for ixml meetings is every other Tuesday at 3 pm
British Time, 4 pm Central European Time (14:00 UTC during summer
time, 15:00 UTC during winter time).  For the foreseeable future, we
meet in weeks whose numbers in the ISO week numbering are even.

On the usual schedule, the next meeting would be Tuesday 23 January,
at 15:00 UTC for one hour.  If that meeting were to be omitted, the
next meeting would be 6 February 2024.

For the record: the current state of the minute-taking rota is:

  Steven Pemberton   2023-10-03
  M Sperberg-McQueen 2023-10-17
  John Lumley        2023-11-28
  Norm Tovey-Walsh   2023-12-12


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Topic: Any other business 
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