iXML Agenda, 11 November 2025

Hi folks,

Here’s the proposed agenda for tomorrow.

Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
Date: 11 November 2025
Chair: Steven
Scribe: Steven
Present:
Regrets: 

Agenda: 

Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2025/10/14-ixml-minutes.html

Topic: Review of open actions

2024-03-05-c: SP to prepare pull request to resolve issue #139 (new grammars, new README)

2025-08-19-a: SP to review pull request #296.

2025-04-15-a: NW to try to clarify “parse tree” in the specification in a way that is satisfactory to everyone
  Pending 2025-08-19-a

2025-10-14-a NW to add a link to Steven’s modularization paper to the list of papers
  Completed

2025-10-14-b NW to summarize the design decisions that differ from SP's paper.
   Completed

2025-10-14-c NW to update the README in the samples to make them CC0 explicitly.
  Completed

2025-10-14-d SP to reply to Alain.
  Completed

2025-10-14-e NW to fix the iXML grammar link in the GitHub README.
  Completed

Topic: Status reports

Topic: New open issues

+ #310 Not possible to set priority on rules

  https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/310

+ #309 Feature request: Doubled "--" to disable the "-" suppressor marker … for faster iteration

  https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/309

+ #308 Not possible to specify an exact number of repetitions

  https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/308

+ #322 Extend Unicode version test to cover Unicode 16 and 17

  This isn’t an issue, it’s a pull request from Gunther Rademacher

  https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/322

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: 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
Time, 4 pm Central European Time (15:00 UTC during winter time, 14:00 UTC during
summer time)

On the usual schedule, the next meeting would be Tuesday, 25 November, at 15:00
UTC for one hour.

(Norm would have to give regrets for 25 November.)

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

+ Steven Pemberton, 2025-09-02
+ John Lumley, 2025-09-30
+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2025-10-14


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 10 November 2025 13:29:09 UTC