XML Core WG Status and Open Actions as of 2007 November 26

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Our next telcon will be December 5.


Status and open actions
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C14N 1.1
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The C14N 1.1 Candidate Recommendation is published at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-xml-c14n11-20070621

We had productive discussions during our f2f--see:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2007Nov/0028

We are planning to drop Appendix A and augment the prose
in 2.4.  

Frederick sent an updated redline version at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2007Nov/0040
In particular, see
http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/c14n11/07-11-20-redline/
for the PDF attachments.

ACTION to Glenn: Produce a new editor's draft reflecting 
the changes suggested in Frederick's updated redline. 

We noticed a problem in the merging process where 'Base' 
argument to join-uris ends with "..". 

ACTION to Thomas and Frederick: Get implementors to run 
this new test case and report the results.

ACTION to Henry:  Come up with an argument for going to PR
with what will be the next draft of C14N 1.1.


LEIRIs
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The latest HRRI draft was published as an ID on May 14 at
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-walsh-tobin-hrri-01.txt

The most recent editor's draft is at
http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/04/hrri/draft-walsh-tobin-hrri-01c.html

Martin's latest IRI draft (defining LEIRIs in section 7) is at 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-iri-bis-01.txt

We've exchanged some email with Martin about some details,  
but in general it looks like we'll be happy with the definition of
LEIRIs in the new IRI RFC.  

Scheduling for the revised IRI RFC is still unclear.


XML 1.0/1.1
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Henry/Richard discussed the test suite issues raised by Frans Englich:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-testsuite/2007Mar/ 

Richard reports that the 2005 issue has been resolved in the latest
draft. 

The one from 2006, character references with numbers with dozens 
of digits, may not be. 

ACTION: Richard to construct a test case for these issues.


XML 5th Edition
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I have sent out email at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/2007OctDec/0021
and
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2007OctDec/0059
and we have gotten very little response--see
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-blueberry-comments/2007Oct/

We had some discussion at our f2f--see
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2007Nov/0031

We appear to have unofficial agreement by most implementors
to consider making this change if it goes through the W3C
process.

Paul talked to Ian Jacobs who suggested the best way to 
make this change is to issue an XML 1.0 5th Edition PER 
with a relatively long review period. 

We appear to have consensus to change the name char productions
in XML 1.0 5th Ed.

We also have consensus to allow XML 1.0 processors to accept 
documents labelled version="1.x".

Other character changes remain to be decided (though the status
quo is not to make any others).  In particular:

ACTION to Henry:  Check with Noah how IBM feels about #x85.

Section 4.2.2 currently has a paragraph reading:

 System identifiers ... may contain characters that...must 
 be escaped before a URI can be used to retrieve the
 referenced resource. 

We decided to replace this (2nd para of 4.2.2) and the 
following 3 points by:

 System identifiers (and other XML strings meant to be used
 as URI references) are LEIRIs [ref].  Failure to match the
 applicable syntax productions of [LEIRI] is not an error.
 Note, however, system identifiers which do not conform to
 LEIRIs are not in practice likely to be useful. 


XML 1.1 3rd Edition
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Same change as for XML 1.0 5th Ed (above).


XML Base
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ACTION to Richard:  Produce another PER-ready draft
of XML Base referencing LEIRIs.

Replace the first sentence of 3.1 with:

 The value of an xml:base attribute is a LEIRI [ref].

Delete the second sentence; leave the third.


XLink 1.1
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ACTION to Norm: Produce a PR-ready draft of XLink 1.1 with 
a reference to the IRI RFC for LEIRIs.

Section 5.4: 

replace para starting:

 The value of the href attribute is an XML resource identifer...

with:

 The value of the href attribute is a LEIRI [ref].

and then delete subsection 5.4.1 but move the para about 
relative references up into 5.4.

ACTION to Norm:  Suggest appropriate changes to XLink 1.1.


XInclude
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We may have several places that need fixing.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xinclude-20061115

3.1, href attribute is a LEIRI

See also 4.1.1 (details TBD) which can't reference XML 1.1
since we don't define XML Resource Identifiers in XML 1.1.
Just replace that para with the "They are LEIRIs" para.

ACTION to Daniel: Produce a PER-ready draft of XInclude 3rd Ed
with appropriate references to the IRI RFC for LEIRIs.

Received on Monday, 26 November 2007 16:53:37 UTC