Proposed iXML agenda, 14 October 2025

Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
Date: 14 October 2025
Chair: Steven
Scribe: Norm
Present:
Regrets: DB, JL

Agenda: 

Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2025/09/30-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

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

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

2025-08-19-c: BTW to attempt to rewrite #19 so that it's clearer.

2025-08-19-d: SP to add the modularization paper to the Invisible XML repository

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

Topic: Review of materials for the proposed symposium

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
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, 28 October, at 14:00
UTC for one hour.

Heads up: daylight saving time ends in the UK and Europe on 26 October 2025. It
ends in the United States on 2 November 2025. Our meetings are scheduled on
European civil time, consequently, our meeting of 28 October 2025 will occur one
hour *later* in the United States at 11:00EDT.

Topic: Any other business

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

+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2025-08-19
+ Steven Pemberton, 2025-09-02
+ John Lumley, 2025-09-30

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 13 October 2025 13:30:29 UTC