iXML Agenda, 18 March 2025

Hi folks,

Here’s the proposed agenda for tomorrow (as usual, formatted so that it’s easy to paste into rrsagent). This is essentially the same agenda as last time.

Please note that the iXML community group operates on UK/European civil time. Tomorrow’s meeting will be one hour later (local time) in North America.

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

Agenda: 

Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2025/03/04-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

Issue #294, “parse tree” is not defined in the specification

  See https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/294

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 1-12. The remaining items
are:

Item 13: The legal form of a pragma name must be defined in the specification.

Item 14: The structure of the optional pragma data following the pragma name
           must not be defined in the specification.

Item 15: There must be a mechanism by which implementers can ensure that a
           chosen pragma name will not conflict with any pragma name used in
           other implementations.

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 March, at 15:00 UTC for one hour. Note that the United States moves to daylight saving time on 9 March. The UK and Europe do not switch until 30 March. Consequently the meeting of 18 March will be one hour later in the United States.

Topic: Any other business

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

+ John Lumley, 2025-02-04
+ Steven Pemberton, 2025-02-18
+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2025-03-04

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 17 March 2025 13:42:47 UTC