Draft iXML agenda, 12 November 2024

Hi folks,

Here’s a proposed agenda for tomorrow’s meeting. I’ve attempted to draft it such that it’s easy to “paste” parts into RRSAgent during the meeting.

Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
Date: 12 November 2024
Chair: 
Scribe: 
Present:
Regrets:

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2024/10/29-ixml-minutes.html
Agenda: 

Topic: Review of open actions

2024-08-06-a, SP to draft a PR to address #263, (serialization of attributes)
  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/263
  (Completed: https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/278)

The “diff” rendering of Steven’s PR #278 can be seen here:
  https://invisiblexml.org/pr/282/autodiff.html
  (That’s a copy of the document because the diff build was broken.)

2023-01-10-f: NTW to produce draft documentation of the XML vocabulary, issue #137
  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/137

2024-03-05-c: SP to prepare pull request to resolve issue #139 (new grammars, new README)
2024-10-01-f: SP to make a PR for both versions of the RFC grammar
  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/139

2024-04-30-b: BTW to open an issue on whether to adopt a scheme to distinguish 'major' from 'minor' versions in version numbers.

2024-10-01-b: SP to make a PR for renaming as a string 
  (Completed: https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/278)

2024-10-01-e: SP to review ixml tests and correct the grammar

2024-xx-xx-a: SP? to make a PR to fix #250, alias delimiter “>” should be hidden
  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/250
  (Completed: https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/278)

2024-10-29-a: JWL to provide more detail about the subtraction operator

Topic: Status reports
Topic: Review of change proposals
  #278, Steven’s PR for issues per above
  #282, Norm’s slightly modified version of PR #278 

Topic: Open issues

Topic: Use pragmas for the prolog?

See also:
  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/265: Use pragmas for the prolog?
  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/254: Extend the prolog to support arbitrary metadata
  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/235: Problems with the prolog
  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/234: Alternate syntaxes for the prolog

Topic: A subtraction operator

See https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/249

Topic: Next meeting

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).

On the usual schedule, the next meeting would be Tuesday, 26 November,
at 15:00 UTC for one hour.

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

+ Steven Pemberton, 2024-08-20
+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2024-10-01
+ John Lumley, 2024-10-29

Topic: Any other business

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica