iXML draft agenda, 17 February 2026

Meeting: Invisible XML Community Group
Date: 17 February 2026
Chair: Steven
Scribe: Steven
Present:
Regrets: David

Note: This meeting will take place on Zoom, not in Google meet as usual:
https://cwi-nl-zoom.zoom.us/j/89919369924?pwd=oYkP728IpdCcljlxyU9AUblbjMOY4y.1

Agenda: 

Topic: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Previous meeting: https://www.w3.org/2026/02/03-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

2026-02-03-a: JWL to study SP’s subtraction operator proposal

Topic: Status reports

Topic: First Int’l Symposium on Invisible XML

Status update.

Topic: New issues

No significant new issues

Topic: Open issues

+ #334 Move iXML off GitHub?

  [[https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/334]]

  Norm is working on it.

+ #332 Invisible XML media type

  https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/332

  Pending discussion with W3C.

+ #329 Unicode version not referenced in the spec

  https://github.com/invisiblexml/ixml/issues/329

  Awaiting a pull request from Steven, per action 2025-11-25-a completed
  20 January 2026

+ #310 Not possible to set priority on rules

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

  Apparently subsumed by the ambiguity umbrella topic?

Topic: Ambiguity umbrella topic

  It was suggested that “ambiguity” is at the root of a number of issues/topics
  including rule priorities, negation, the subtraction operator, etc. How do we
  want to organize the process for tackling these issues?

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: 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, 17 February, at 15:00
UTC for one hour.

The meeting of 17 February will be conducted on Zoom as a dress rehearsal for
the symposium.

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

+ Steven Pemberton, 2025-11-25
+ Norm Tovey-Walsh, 2026-01-20
+ John Lumley, 2026-02-03

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

--
Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 16 February 2026 12:48:30 UTC