Agenda for iXML CG meeting, 18 August 2026

Got the date right this time, I think :-)

Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
Date: 18 August 2026
Chair: Steven
Scribe: Norm
Present: 
Regrets:

Agenda: 

Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2026/07/21-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)
  Augmented by 2026-07-07, SP to replace his PR with three separate PRs.
  Continues

2026-07-11-a: NW to look into possible other namespaces for the test catalog(s)
  Completed, see PR #371

Topic: Status reports

Topic: Progress report on symposium output?

Topic: New issues

+ Update the test-catalog to include the source files

  See https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/issues/379
  See https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/pulls/380

+ Replace github links with equivalent codeberg links

  See https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/pulls/376

+ A simple grammar that matches UK postcodes

  See https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/pulls/373

+ A sample grammar for Gregorian dates

  See https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/pulls/372

Topic: Open issues

+ #369 Namespaces in test catalogue still point to GitHub

  https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/issues/369

  See https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/pulls/371

+ #368 Add a symbol for "epsilon", don't allow absence of a symbol to be epsilon

  https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/issues/368

+ #357 PEG feature parity: ordered choice, lookahead

  https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/issues/357

+ #349 Greedy matching feature

  https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/issues/349

+ #334 Move iXML off GitHub?

  https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/issues/334

  Status: primary movement

+ #332 Invisible XML media type

  https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/332
  https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/issues/

  Pending discussion with W3C.

+ #310 Not possible to set priority on rules

  https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/310
  https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/issues/

  Apparently subsumed by the ambiguity umbrella topic?

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.)

  + Steven’s propsal: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2025/06-06-markupuk/paper.html
  + Norm’s proposal: https://nineml.org/proposals/2026/modularity/
  + Requirements list: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2026Apr/0004.html

See also:

  + https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/src/branch/main/misc/use-cases-for-combining-grammars.md
  + https://codeberg.org/InvisibleXML/ixml/src/branch/main/misc/grammar-combination-notes.md

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)

The next meeting will be Tuesday, 1 September, at 15:00 BST for one hour.

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

+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2026-06-23
+ Steven Pemberton, 2026-07-07
+ John Lumley, 2026-07-21

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 17 August 2026 09:15:00 UTC