Draft iXML agenda, 8 July 2025

Regrets JWL (in the Adriatic)
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> On 7 Jul 2025, at 14:35, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I think this is correct. We’ve missed a few consecutive meetings.
> 
> Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
> Chair: Steven
> Scribe: Norm
> Present:
> Regrets: BTW
> 
> Agenda:
> 
> Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting
> 
> Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2025/05/27-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
> 
> 2025-04-15-a: NW to try to clarify “parse tree” in the specification in a way that is satisfactory to everyone
> 
> 2025-04-29: SP to see if the GLL parser he mentioned is open source
> 
> + Completed
> 
> Topic: Status reports
> 
> Topic: New open issues
> 
> Topic: Perspectives on serialization
> 
> See https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/296
> 
> Preview: https://invisiblexml.org/pr/296/index.html
>   Diffs: https://invisiblexml.org/pr/296/autodiff.html
> 
> Topic: Use pragmas for the prolog?
> 
> Requirements document:
> 
> https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/blob/master/proposals/pragma_req.md
> 
> At the previous meetings, we had consensus for items 1-18. The remaining items
> are:
> 
> 19. A pragma’s attachment to a specific syntactic construct must be unambiguous
>  to software for parsing iXML grammars.
> 
> 20. The relationship between a pragma and the construct it attaches to should be
>  clear and unambiguous to human readers, in both iXML and XML notation.
> 
> 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: Modularization
> 
> Possible discussion of some of the ideas presented in Steven’s MarkupUK paper.
> (I’d like to point to it, but the MarkupUK proceedings doesn’t seem to support
> doing that. At least, the frames version, which is the only version I can find,
> doesn’t.)
> 
> 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
> Summer Time, 4 pm Central European Summer Time (14:00 UTC during summer time,
> 15:00 UTC during winter time).
> 
> On the usual schedule, the next meeting would be Tuesday, 10 June, at 14:00 UTC
> for one hour.
> 
> Topic: Any other business
> 
> For the record: the current state of the minute-taking rota is:
> 
> + Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2025-03-15
> + Steven Pemberton, 2025-04-29
> + John Lumley, 2025-05-27
> 
>                                      Be seeing you,
>                                        norm
> 
> --
> Norm Tovey-Walsh
> Saxonica

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