QT4 CG Meeting 059 Agenda 2023-12-19

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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 19 December.

The following meeting is scheduled for 9 January 2024. We will take a holiday recess on 26 December 2023 and 2 January 2024.

Any regrets for 9 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-052-06: 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-058-01: MK to clarify in fn:numeric-compare that -0 and +0 are equal.
  • [ ] QT4CG-058-02: MK to consider providing more advice about the pitfalls of mixing decimal and double when sorting

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 #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 #903: 892 XPDY0002: Misleading examples
  • PR #902: 900 fn:sort, array:sort: Parameter names
  • PR #897: 894 - errors in forming function items
  • PR #881: 866 Introduce and exploit new numeric-compare() function

1.6.3. Close without action

It has been proposed that the following issues be closed without action. If you think discussion is necessary, please say so.

  • Issue #707: Dynamic Function Calls: Processing Empty Sequences
  • Issue #705: Function Coercion: Function Arities
  • Issue #51: Generalize lookup operator for function items
  • Issue #20: Highlight EBNF grammar differences in the diff versions of the specs

1.6.4. 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 #168: XSLT Extension Instructions invoking Named Templates

1.6.5. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #909: 893 fn:compare: Support for arbitrary atomic types
  • PR #907: 906 fn:deep-equal: unordered → ordered
  • PR #905: 898 - relax the constraints on document-uri
  • PR #904: 821 Annotations: Make default namespace explicit
  • PR #901: 895 Parameters with default values: allow empty sequences
  • PR #880: 872 Symmetry: fn:items-at → fn:get
  • PR #874: 878 Proposed extension to subsequence
  • PR #832: 77 Add map:deep-update and array:deep-update
  • PR #737: 295: Boost the capability of recursive record types

1.6.6. Proposed for V4.0

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

  • Issue #910: Introduce a Kollection object with functions that operate on all types of items that can be containers of unlimited number of "members"
  • Issue #908: Function identity: documentation still too vague
  • 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 #283: Enumeration types
  • 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 #880: 872 Symmetry: fn:items-at → fn:get

See PR #880

See also discussion from meeting 058 and meeting 57.

As promised: I plan to time box this discussion to 15 minutes.

2.2. PR #874: 878 Proposed extension to subsequence

See PR #874

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

2.4. PR #905: 898 - relax the constraints on document-uri

2.5. PR #909: 893 fn:compare: Support for arbitrary atomic types

2.6. PR #904: 821 Annotations: Make default namespace explicit

2.7. PR #901: 895 Parameters with default values: allow empty sequences

2.8. PR #907: 906 fn:deep-equal: unordered → ordered

3. Any other business