iXML Agenda, 2 September 2025

Hi folks,

Here’s the just barely almost maybe on time agenda for tomorrow:

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

Agenda: 

Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2025/08/19-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

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

2025-08-19-b: SP to remove S06 from the specification.

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

2025-08-19-e: SP to assemble a discussion document for the conference.

Topic: Status reports

Topic: New open issues

#303, Using multiple iXML grammars on ‘pre-processed’ input
   https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/303

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?

Review of BTW’s reformulation of #19?

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, 16 September, at 14:00 UTC
for one hour.

Topic: Any other business

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

+ Steven Pemberton, 2025-04-29
+ John Lumley, 2025-05-27
+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2025-08-19


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 1 September 2025 14:03:37 UTC