Draft iXML agenda, 1 October 2024

Invisible XML Draft Agenda 2024-10-01

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

   NTW to scribe, or in his absence JWL.

1.3. Approve the agenda

1.4. Approve minutes of previous meeting

   Minutes of [1]the previous meeting.

1.5. Next meeting

   This meeting is planned for 1 October 2024. The following meeting is
   scheduled for 15 October.

1.6. Review of open action items [1/8]

   (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 [2]#263
       (serialization of attributes)
     * [ ] 2023-01-10-f: NTW and MSM to do a bit of revision to improve
       the draft documentation of the XML vocabulary (see #137) for
       further discussion.
     * [ ] 2024-03-05-c: SP to prepare pull request to resolve issue #139
       (new grammars, new README).
     * [ ]
       2024-03-19-a: SP to contact W3C to get the report links fixed on
       the report and ixml group pages:
       [3]https://www.w3.org/community/reports/
       [4]https://www.w3.org/community/ixml/ Both pages have links which
       return a 404.
       [Still broken 11 June 2024 - secure connection fails, see [5]note,
       while trying to dereference
       [6]https://ixml.nwalsh.com/ixml/CG-FINAL-ixml-20230710/]
     * [ ] 2024-04-16-a: MSM to revise the EBNF document in light of SP's
       review.
     * [ ] 2024-04-16-b: NTW to reconstruct the previous W3C-styled draft.
     * [ ]
       2024-04-16-c: NTW to sort out the broken link in the report (404 on
       link to 'latest published version').
       [29 April 2024: link to
       [7]https://www.w3.org/community/reports/ixml/ixml/ still broken]
       [10 June 2024: where is this link? I don't find the string 'latest
       published version' in the spec.]
     * [ ] 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.

1.7. Review of open pull requests and issues

1.7.1. Pull requests

     * PR [8]#262: Add publication metadata to ixml grammar files
     * PR [9]#251: Some work on tag-set documentation
     * PR [10]#247: Extensive cosmetic changes to RNC schema for test
       catalog
     * PR [11]#10: Proposal: Pragmas feature

1.7.2. Issues

     * Issue [12]#268: When is a letter not a letter?
     * Issue [13]#267: Fix the 'this version' in the consensus draft
     * Issue [14]#266: iXML tests involving an earlier version of the
       spec.
     * Issue [15]#265: Use pragmas for the prolog?
     * Issue [16]#263: Serialization of attributes
     * Issue [17]#254: Extend the prolog to support arbitrary metadata
     * Issue [18]#253: Update the build process so that all generated
       grammar files explicit "build" metadata
     * Issue [19]#252: Er, where are the authoritative versions of
       ixml.ixml and ixml.xml?
     * Issue [20]#250: In spec grammar, alias delimiter ">" should be
       hidden
     * Issue [21]#249: A 'Subtraction' operator feature
     * Issue [22]#248: schemas for vxml grammars need updating
     * Issue [23]#246: Tests needed for linebreak normalization
     * Issue [24]#239: Support simple data types?
     * Issue [25]#235: Problems with prolog
     * Issue [26]#234: Alternative syntaxes for prolog
     * Issue [27]#168: Dynamic naming / name from the input data
     * Issue [28]#139:
       [29]https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/blob/master/samples/URI/rf
       c-3987.ixml
     * Issue [30]#137: We should document the XML tag set that results
       from parsing an ixml grammar with the ixml specification grammar
     * Issue [31]#75: Combining grammars (for v.Next) feature

2. Status reports

3. Broken links on the CG and CG Reports pages

   Status update?

4. Review and resolution of bug reports and technical issues

4.1. Issues against the 1.0 specification

   None.

4.2. Issues against the current specification

     * Issue [32]#267: Fix the 'this version' in the consensus draft
     * Issue [33]#263: Serialization of attributes
     * Issue [34]#254: Extend the prolog to support arbitrary metadata
     * Issue [35]#250: In spec grammar, alias delimiter ">" should be
       hidden
     * Issue [36]#249: A 'Subtraction' operator feature
     * Issue [37]#248: schemas for vxml grammars need updating
     * Issue [38]#239: Support simple data types?
     * Issue [39]#235: Problems with prolog
     * Issue [40]#234: Alternative syntaxes for prolog
     * Issue [41]#168: Dynamic naming / name from the input data
     * Issue [42]#137: We should document the XML tag set that results
       from parsing an ixml grammar with the ixml specification grammar
     * Issue [43]#75: Combining grammars (for v.Next) feature

4.3. Issues relating to the test suite

     * Issue [44]#266: iXML tests involving an earlier version of the
       spec.
     * Issue [45]#246: Tests needed for linebreak normalization

4.4. Issues for v.Next

     * Issue [46]#268: When is a letter not a letter?
     * Issue [47]#265: Use pragmas for the prolog?

4.5. Issues relating to the website and ancillary documents

     * Issue [48]#253: Update the build process so that all generated
       grammar files explicit "build" metadata
     * Issue [49]#252: Er, where are the authoritative versions of
       ixml.ixml and ixml.xml?
     * Issue [50]#139:
       [51]https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/blob/master/samples/URI/rf
       c-3987.ixml

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). 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, 15 October,
   at 14:00 UTC for one hour.

   For the record: the current state of the minute-taking rota is:
     * Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2023-04-16
     * John Lumley, 2024-03-19
     * Steven Pemberton, 2024-08-20

6. Any other business

References

   1. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2024Aug/0015.html
   2. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/263
   3. https://www.w3.org/community/reports/
   4. https://www.w3.org/community/ixml/
   5. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/secure-connection-failed-firefox-did-not-connect?as=u
   6. https://ixml.nwalsh.com/ixml/CG-FINAL-ixml-20230710/
   7. https://www.w3.org/community/reports/ixml/ixml/
   8. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/262
   9. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/251
  10. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/247
  11. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/10
  12. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/268
  13. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/267
  14. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/266
  15. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/265
  16. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/263
  17. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/254
  18. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/253
  19. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/252
  20. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/250
  21. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/249
  22. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/248
  23. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/246
  24. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/239
  25. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/235
  26. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/234
  27. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/168
  28. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/139
  29. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/blob/master/samples/URI/rfc-3987.ixml
  30. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/137
  31. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/75
  32. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/267
  33. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/263
  34. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/254
  35. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/250
  36. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/249
  37. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/248
  38. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/239
  39. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/235
  40. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/234
  41. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/168
  42. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/137
  43. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/75
  44. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/266
  45. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/246
  46. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/268
  47. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/265
  48. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/253
  49. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/252
  50. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/issues/139
  51. https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/blob/master/samples/URI/rfc-3987.ixml

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 30 September 2024 06:41:58 UTC