iXML Agenda, 4 February 2025

Hi folks,

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

Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
Chair: Steven
Scribe: John, or in his absence Steven
Present:
Regrets:

Agenda: 

Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2025/01/21-ixml-minutes.html

Topic: Review of open actions

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

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

Topic: Status reports

Topic: New open issues

No new issues.

Topic: Use pragmas for the prolog?

Requirements document:

   https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/blob/master/proposals/pragma_req.md

At the previous meeting, we had consensus for items 1-5. There’s been some email
discussion of items 6 through 10:

Item 6: It should be straightforward for processors to ignore pragmas they do
          not recognize.

Item 7: Processors must be able to determine unambiguously whether they
          recognize a given pragma or not.

Item 8: A pragma must be distinguishable as such from all other grammar
          constructs, even if the processor in question does not recognize the
          specific pragma.

Item 9: Pragmas must be able to annotate an iXML grammar as a whole, individual
          rules in a grammar, and nonterminals.

Item 10: Pragmas should also be able to annotate any grammar constructs for
           which robust use cases can be put forward, bearing in mind the
           importance of balancing succinctness, expressive power, and
           readability of grammars.

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, 18 February, at 15:00
UTC for one hour.

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

+ John Lumley, 2024-12-10
+ Steven Pemberton, 2025-01-07
+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2025-01-21

Topic: Any other business


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 3 February 2025 13:34:22 UTC