iXML Agenda, 10 June 2025

Hello,

This is not much different from the previous agenda, but I have added a space to discuss modularization.

Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
Chair: Steven
Scribe: Norm
Present:
Regrets:

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

Received on Monday, 9 June 2025 07:33:36 UTC