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QT4 CG meeting 179 draft agenda #agenda-09-08

07 Sep at 13:00:00 GMT

Draft agenda published.

Pull request #2892 created #created-2892

04 Sep at 11:51:57 GMT
2891 Oxford comma: inconsistencies

90% XQuery, 10% human eyes

Closes #2891

Issue #2585 closed #closed-2585

04 Sep at 11:50:50 GMT

Limits (editorial)

Issue #2615 closed #closed-2615

04 Sep at 11:48:15 GMT

XSLT: should xsl:map-entry return a JNode?

Issue #2891 created #created-2891

04 Sep at 11:36:21 GMT
Oxford comma: inconsistencies

(PR is coming)

Issue #2888 closed #closed-2888

03 Sep at 21:17:44 GMT

Function equivalence: comparing the captured context

Pull request #2890 created #created-2890

03 Sep at 20:07:33 GMT
2872 Refine supports-dtd option

Splits the supports-dtd option into supports-dtd-validation and supports-dtd-attribute-typing on the grounds that some commonly used XML parsers (for example the Microsoft .NET parser) support one and not the other.

Pull request #2889 created #created-2889

03 Sep at 19:31:18 GMT
2887 Fix bad JSON example

Fix #2887

Issue #2888 created #created-2888

03 Sep at 18:33:59 GMT
Function equivalence: comparing the captured context

The current equivalence rules require a processor to work out which components of the captured focus a function body can actually observe. This can become fairly expensive and will only be required for edge cases, like function items that capture different focuses yet always return the same result. An example:

1 ! fn:last#0
2 ! fn:last#0

I believe that comparing the captured focus as a whole makes the rules simpler. A processor will still be allowed to recognize those cases.

Issue #2887 created #created-2887

03 Sep at 15:09:36 GMT
The xsl:iterate Instruction - Example contains invalid JSON data

XSLT Specification 7.2 The xsl:iterate Instruction - Example

The example data contains lines like this: { "date": "2008-09-01", credit: 12.00 },

Saxon 13.0 produces this when using the data: FOJS0001 Invalid JSON input on line 2: Property name must be a string literal (found <UNQUOTED_STRING>

Invalid JSON input on line 2: Property name must be a string literal (found <UNQUOTED_STRING>

Should I raise an issue with Saxonica about the missing closing ) in the error?

Pull request #2886 created #created-2886

02 Sep at 16:54:41 GMT
1459 Function properties and arities

Summary of the most important changes:

  • I have removed the explicit listing of the default function properties both in the code as well as in the rendered representation (deterministic, context-independent, focus-independent); they are stated once in a new sectin §1.5.4.
  • The arity prose has been changed to a single sentence naming the omitted argument, for example: “If $node is absent, this function is context-dependent and focus-dependent.”
  • Various wrong statements were fixed (fn:format-integer, fn:format-number, fn:civil-timezone, fn:contains-subsequence, fn:load-xquery-module, fn:in-scope-prefixes`, and others).
  • Functions like fn:transform now name the component they depend on.

Closes #1459

Issue #1920 closed #closed-1920

02 Sep at 07:27:06 GMT

(Non)determinism of operations that generate functions

Pull request #2885 created #created-2885

02 Sep at 07:12:53 GMT
2849 xs:integer vs. restricted subtypes

In this PR, numeric specific subtypes are changed back to the general xs:integer (see #2849 for the rationale).

It also fixes an inconsistency in the CSV rules…

parsed-csv-structure-record?column-index was map(xs:string, xs:integer) with the prose “column positions (as 1-based positive integers)”, while ?get in the same record type uses xs:positiveInteger.

…and it now allows users to also supply negative input for fn:unix-dateTime (similarly: “If the value is out of range …”).

Issue #2884 created #created-2884

01 Sep at 21:11:09 GMT
Further issues with the schema for XSLT

Transferred from #2837

Thanks very much for these changes! Of course I have a few small comments:

To answer your question, the constructor attribute was (and is) missing from the xsl:record-type element. Sorry I wasn't more specific. xsl:item-type allows mixed content, but I don't think it should. xsl:item-type has an assertion requiring the "as" attribute, but the spec says it's optional. The shadow attribute "_main_module" has two underscores, but it should be "_main-module" with an underscore then a hyphen. (This is a new one) xsl:merge-key is in the substitution group for xsl:instruction but I don't think it should be. Looks like I'm not able to reopen this issue...please let me know if you'd like me to create a new issue.

Thanks again!

Issue #2338 closed #closed-2338

01 Sep at 18:47:08 GMT

Nomenclature: node(), gnode(), jnode(), xnode()

Issue #2795 closed #closed-2795

01 Sep at 18:47:06 GMT

2338 Nomenclature: node(), gnode(), xnode()

Issue #2740 closed #closed-2740

01 Sep at 18:44:32 GMT

Built-in records, constructor functions: optional fields

Issue #2768 closed #closed-2768

01 Sep at 18:44:31 GMT

2740 Drop constructor functions from built-in records

QT4 CG meeting 178 draft minutes #minutes-09-01

01 Sep at 16:40:00 GMT

Draft minutes published.

Issue #2352 closed #closed-2352

01 Sep at 16:16:58 GMT

Trusted execution: questions and observations

Issue #2796 closed #closed-2796

01 Sep at 16:16:57 GMT

2352 Trusted execution: clarifications

Issue #2827 closed #closed-2827

01 Sep at 16:13:54 GMT

Editorial Notes (August 2026 edition)

Issue #2877 closed #closed-2877

01 Sep at 16:13:53 GMT

2827 Editorial Notes (August 2026 edition)

Issue #2871 closed #closed-2871

01 Sep at 16:10:41 GMT

2813 [XSLT] Reorganise sections 25 and 26

Issue #2837 closed #closed-2837

01 Sep at 16:07:46 GMT

Editorial/non-normative issues with the XSD for XSLT

Issue #2870 closed #closed-2870

01 Sep at 16:07:45 GMT

2837 Corrections to schema for XSLT 4.0

Issue #2863 closed #closed-2863

01 Sep at 16:04:42 GMT

Records: drop outdated `extensible` and `required` attributes

Issue #2865 closed #closed-2865

01 Sep at 16:04:41 GMT

Updated: 2863 Records: drop outdated extensible and required attributes

Issue #2880 closed #closed-2880

01 Sep at 16:01:25 GMT

Some XSLT proofreading errors

Issue #2883 created #created-2883

01 Sep at 14:36:24 GMT
parse-xml: strip-space=conditional

As we provide the option parse-xml: strip-space=conditional I think we should make it work consistently with the same option on fn:doc and fn:document - it should strip whitespace according to the XSLT strip-space/preserve-space declarations.

The default should remain "none" to preserve backwards compatibility.

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