Draft iXML agenda, 29 October 2024

Hi folks,

Here’s the proposed agenda for tomorrow’s meeting.

Invisible XML Draft Agenda 2024-10-29

Agenda

   This meeting will be hosted on Google Meet at 15:00BST (14:00GMT,
   16:00CEST, 10:00EDT).

1. Administrivia

1.1. Roll call

1.2. Select a scribe

   John to scribe, or in his absence, Steven.

1.3. Review of open action items [5/13]

   (Items marked [X] are believed to have been closed via email before
   this agenda was posted.)
     * [ ] 2024-08-06-a, SP to draft a PR to address [1]#263
       (serialization of attributes)
     * [ ] 2023-01-10-f: NTW to produce draft documentation of the XML
       vocabulary (see [2]#137)
     * [ ] 2024-03-05-c: SP to prepare pull request to resolve issue
       [3]#139 (new grammars, new README).
     * [X] 2024-03-19-a: SP to contact W3C to get the report links fixed
          + NTW: The broken link no longer appears, AFAICT. I suggest we
            close this issue, and related issues, and back away slowly.
     * [X] 2024-04-30-a: NTW to propose wording for possible changes to
       status reporting, with particular respect to reporting of iXML
       version used by processor.
     * [ ] 2024-04-30-b: Bethan to open an issue on whether to adopt a
       scheme to distinguish 'major' from 'minor' versions in version
       numbers.
     * [X] 2024-10-01-a: NTW to add XSLT Forms implementation to the
       website
     * [ ] 2024-10-01-b: SP to try out renaming as a string
     * [X] 2024-10-01-c: NTW to describe the discrepancy between iXML
       names and XML names
     * [X] 2024-10-01-d: NTW to make sure pragmas are on the agenda
     * [ ] 2024-10-01-e: SP to review ixml tests and correct the grammar
     * [ ] 2024-10-01-f: SP to make a PR for both versions of the RFC
       grammar
     * [ ] ???: SP? to make a PR to fix [4]#250, alias delimiter ">"
       should be hidden

2. Status reports

3. Review of change proposals

3.1. Rework ixml:version

   See PR [5]#275 fixing issue [6]#271.

   Revised spec: [7]https://invisiblexml.org/pr/275/autodiff.html

3.2. Fix section title: iXML in XML

   See PR [8]#276 fixing issue [9]#270.

   Revised spec: [10]https://invisiblexml.org/pr/276/autodiff.html

3.3. Add prose to allow user selection of start symbol

   See PR [11]#277 fixing issue [12]#274.

   Revised spec: [13]https://invisiblexml.org/pr/277/autodiff.html

4. Open issues

4.1. Use pragmas for the prolog?

   Related issues:
     * Issue [14]#265: Use pragmas for the prolog?
     * Issue [15]#254: Extend the prolog to support arbitrary metadata
     * Issue [16]#235: Problems with the prolog
     * Issue [17]#234: Alternate syntaxes for the prolog

4.2. A subtraction operator

     * Issue [18]#249

5. 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, 12 November,
   at 15:00 UTC for one hour.

   For the record: the current state of the minute-taking rota is:
     * John Lumley, 2024-03-19
     * Steven Pemberton, 2024-08-20
     * Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2024-10-01

6. Any other business

References

   1. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/263
   2. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/137
   3. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/139
   4. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/250
   5. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/275
   6. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/271
   7. https://invisiblexml.org/pr/275/autodiff.html
   8. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/276
   9. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/270
  10. https://invisiblexml.org/pr/276/autodiff.html
  11. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/277
  12. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/274
  13. https://invisiblexml.org/pr/277/autodiff.html
  14. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/265
  15. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/254
  16. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/235
  17. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/234
  18. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/249

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

--
Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica