QT4 CG Meeting 058 Agenda 2023-12-12

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Agenda

This meeting will be hosted on Zoom at 16:00BST (17:00CEST, 11:00EDT, 08:00PDT).

See the meeting logistics page for details.

1. Administrivia

1.1. Roll call

1.2. Approve the agenda

1.3. Approve minutes of previous meeting

Minutes of the previous meeting.

1.4. Next meeting

This meeting is planned for 12 December, the following meeting is scheduled for 19 December.

Any regrets for the following meeting?

We will take a holiday recess on 26 December and 2 January, 2024.

1.5. Review of open action items [3/9]

(Items marked [X] are believed to have been closed via email before this agenda was posted.)

  • [ ] QT4CG-052-02: NW to consider how to schedule an “editor’s meeting”
  • [ ] QT4CG-052-05: MK to rename the hexBinary-equal function to binary-equal?
  • [ ] QT4CG-052-06: MK to consider the editorial question of “promotion” for the symmetric relations.
  • [ ] QT4CG-055-01: MK to clarify that the return type of the deep lookup operator is a flat sequence.
  • [ ] QT4CG-056-04: MK to write a proposal for adding a select attribute to xsl:text
  • [ ] QT4CG-057-01: CG to make a PR for changing items to subsequence in some functions.
  • [ ] QT4CG-057-02: CG to make the list of options in deep-equal alphabetical again
  • [ ] QT4CG-057-03: CG to attempt to clarify that the unordered option in deep-equal only applies to the top-level sequence

1.6. Review of open pull requests and issues

1.6.1. Blocked

The following PRs are open but have merge conflicts or comments which suggest they aren’t ready for action.

  • PR #863: 742 Drop xsl:function-library declaration
  • PR #832: 77 Add map:deep-update and array:deep-update
  • PR #795: 655: fn:sort-with
  • PR #529: 528: revision of json(), and renaming to elements-to-maps()

1.6.2. Merge without discussion

The following PRs are editorial, small, or otherwise appeared to be uncontroversial when the agenda was prepared. The chairs propose that these can be merged without discussion. If you think discussion is necessary, please say so.

  • PR #884: 862 Add explanations and examples of implausible expressions
  • PR #879: 844 New sequence functions: names
  • PR #875: XQFO, chap. 9 minor edits
  • PR #873: 865 Improve explanation of equality comparisons
  • PR #870: 867 Explain defaults in function signatures
  • PR #863: 742 Drop xsl:function-library declaration
  • PR #849: 847 Allow uri-structure-record keys to have empty sequence values
  • PR #798: 479: fn:deep-equal: Input order

1.6.3. XSLT focused

The following PRs appear to be candidates for a future XSLT-focused meeting.

  • PR #871: Action qt4 cg 027 01 next match

These issues identify the XSLT-focused changes that have been made to the specifications but which have not been established by the community group as the status quo.

  • Issue #742: xsl:function-library: keep, drop, or refine?
  • Issue #168: XSLT Extension Instructions invoking Named Templates

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

The following substantive PRs were open when this agenda was prepared.

  • PR #881: 866 Introduce and exploit new numeric-compare() function
  • PR #880: 872 Symmetry: fn:items-at → fn:get
  • PR #874: 878 Proposed extension to subsequence
  • PR #737: 295: Boost the capability of recursive record types

1.6.5. Proposed for V4.0

The following issues are labled “proposed for V4.0”.

  • Issue #850: fn:parse-html: Finalization
  • Issue #829: fn:boolean: EBV support for more item types
  • Issue #716: Generators in XPath
  • Issue #689: fn:stack-trace: keep or drop?
  • Issue #583: array:replace(), etc
  • Issue #557: fn:unparsed-binary: accessing and manipulating binary types
  • Issue #340: fn:format-number: Specifying decimal format
  • Issue #260: array:index-of
  • Issue #33: json parsing number type option
  • Issue #31: Extend FLWOR expressions to maps

2. Technical Agenda

2.1. PR #881: 866 Introduce and exploit new numeric-compare() function

See PR #881

2.2. PR #880: 872 Symmetry: fn:items-at → fn:get

See PR #880

2.3. PR #874: 878 Proposed extension to subsequence

See PR #874

2.4. PR #737: 295: Boost the capability of recursive record types

See PR #737

2.5. Issue #340: fn:format-number: Specifying decimal format

See issue #340

2.6. Issue #557: fn:unparsed-binary: accessing and manipulating binary types

See issue #557

3. Any other business