Re: XProc Minutes 12 November 2014

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

See http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes

> [1]W3C
>
>                                    - DRAFT -
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>                             XML Processing Model WG
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> 12 Nov 2014
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>    [2]Agenda
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>    See also: [3]IRC log
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> Attendees
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>    Present
>            Norm, Jim, Vojtech
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>    Regrets
>            Loren, Henry, Alex
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>    Chair
>            Norm
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>    Scribe
>            Norm
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> Contents
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>      * [4]Topics
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>          1. [5]Accept this agenda?
>          2. [6]Accept minutes from the previous meeting?
>          3. [7]Next meeting
>          4. [8]Review of open action items
>          5. [9]Jim's proposal to make p:inline optional
>          6. [10]Norm's proposal to split the spec into two documents
>          7. [11]Liam's message
>          8. [12]Any other business?
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>      * [13]Summary of Action Items
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>    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>   Accept this agenda?
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>    -> [14]http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-agenda
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>    Accepted.
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>   Accept minutes from the previous meeting?
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>    ->
>    [15]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2014Nov/0004.html
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>    Norm thanks Jim for taking minutes.
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>    <jfuller> tbey were terrible
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>    Accepted.
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>   Next meeting
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>    Proposed: 19 Nov 2014 does anyone have to give regrets?
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>    No regrets heard.
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>   Review of open action items
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>    <scribe> No progress reported.
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>   Jim's proposal to make p:inline optional
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>    Vojtech: Two things. If you have PIs or comments, you need to have a
>    p:inline, but what does it mean
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>    <jfuller>
>    [16]https://xquery.github.io/xproc-specification/langspec/xproc20/head/diff.html#p.inline
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>    Some discussion of what it means to have multiple top-level elements.
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>    Norm: No, I don't think we should do that.
>    ... For exactly the reasons that Vojtech raised, I think if we have
>    multiple top-level elements, you need the p:inline wrapper.
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>    Jim: I thought comments and PIs would always throw an error.
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>    Vojtech: No, if there's only one top-level element, they're ok.
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>    Jim: So instead of foreign element(s), you're saying foreign element (not
>    plural) and go for the singular.
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>    Vojtech: The spec of p:inline is any element, but we also allow PIs and
>    comments around it.
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>    Norm: I think if you have multiple documents, you need the wrapper.
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>    Vojtech: At the moment, if you use p:inline then comments and PIs are
>    ignored outside the p:inline elements.
>    ... If you remove the wrapper, then they become part of the document.
>    ... Another thing, at the moment the exclude-inline-prefixes attribute is
>    on p:inline and p:input.
>    ... But I think the p:inline should be optional in the other places as
>    well. On output, on connections, etc.
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>    Norm: I agree.
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>    Jim: I didn't propose that because I was trying to make the change very
>    narrow.
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>    Norm: I think if the p:inline can be left out in one context, it should be
>    legal to leave it out everywhere that it can occur.
>
>    Jim: What about expand-text?
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>    Norm: I think that needs to be available on all of the possible parents of
>    p:inline.
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>    <scribe> ACTION: ACTION A-257-01 Jim to revise the p:inline proposal to
>    cover all of the places where p:inline can occur and to handle expand-text
>    as well as exclude-inline-prefixes. [recorded in
>    [17]http://www.w3.org/2014/11/12-xproc-minutes.html#action01]
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>   Norm's proposal to split the spec into two documents
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>    -> [18]https://ndw.github.io/specification/
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>    Norm thinks he made it work.
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>    <jfuller> +1
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>    <jfuller> yes
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>    Norm: Consensus is that we should do this. The editor asserts it's
>    entirely editorial. No technical changes except putting p:template and
>    p:in-scope-namespaces into the steps document.
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>    Vojtech: There are also references to p:try and such. They are still in
>    the language spec.
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>    Norm: Yes.
>
>    Vojtech: The document could also be called something else; the compound
>    steps are also "standard steps".
>    ... I would expect them in the steps document, but that would probably not
>    be as easy to do.
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>    Norm: But if we moved them all into the steps document, we'd really be
>    back to a single document...
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>    Vojtech: I see that for p:declare-step or p:pipeline, but things like
>    p:viewport or p:choose are more like standard steps that we provide out of
>    the box.
>    ... It's really just atomic steps.
>    ... The main spec is compound steps and the rest of the language.
>
>    Norm: That's right.
>
>    Vojtech: On one level all these things like viewport and for-each are
>    really just steps.
>
>    Norm: So should we wait on splitting...
>
>    Vojtech: No, but maybe we should consider moving viewport, for-each, etc.
>    into the steps document.
>    ... The second document is really a library of atomic steps; maybe that's
>    ok.
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>    <jfuller> I think its ok as well
>
>    Proposal: Accept the two-spec version as the new consensus draft.
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>    No objections heard.
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>    Accepted.
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>    Norm: I will make a pull request and make it so.
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>   Liam's message
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>    Norm: It's a useful collection of first-time-user-concerns.
>
>    <jfuller>
>    [19]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2014Nov/0007.html
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>    Norm: I propose that we make one-or-more issues out of these and see that
>    we address them.
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>    The WG walks through Liam's message, muses about the changes.
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>   Any other business?
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>    None heard.
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>    Adjourned.
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> Summary of Action Items
>
>    [NEW] ACTION: ACTION A-257-01 Jim to revise the p:inline proposal to cover
>    all of the places where p:inline can occur and to handle expand-text as
>    well as exclude-inline-prefixes. [recorded in
>    [20]http://www.w3.org/2014/11/12-xproc-minutes.html#action01]
>     
>    [End of minutes]
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> References
>
>    1. http://www.w3.org/
>    2. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-agenda
>    3. http://www.w3.org/2014/11/12-xproc-irc
>    4. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#agenda
>    5. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#item01
>    6. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#item02
>    7. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#item03
>    8. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#item04
>    9. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#item05
>   10. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#item06
>   11. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#item07
>   12. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#item08
>   13. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-minutes#ActionSummary
>   14. http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/11/12-agenda
>   15. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2014Nov/0004.html
>   16. https://xquery.github.io/xproc-specification/langspec/xproc20/head/diff.html#p.inline
>   17. http://www.w3.org/2014/11/12-xproc-minutes.html#action01]
>   18. https://ndw.github.io/specification/
>   19. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2014Nov/0007.html
>   20. http://www.w3.org/2014/11/12-xproc-minutes.html#action01
>   21. http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/scribe/scribedoc.htm
>   22. http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/scribe/

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
Lead Engineer
MarkLogic Corporation
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www.marklogic.com

Received on Wednesday, 12 November 2014 16:15:34 UTC