Agenda for 27 May 2025

Hello,

Apologies for the tardy agenda. I thought I sent this on Sunday when I sent the QT4CG agenda, but apparently, I didn’t.

Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
Chair: Steven
Scribe: John
Present:
Regrets: David; Bethan is at risk

Agenda: 

Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2025/04/29-ixml-minutes

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

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: 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:

+ John Lumley, 2025-03-18
+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2025-03-15
+ Steven Pemberton, 2025-04-29

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

--
Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Tuesday, 27 May 2025 08:41:28 UTC