QT4 CG Meeting 061 Agenda 2024-01-16

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Agenda

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

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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 16 January. The following meeting is scheduled for 23 January.

Any regrets for 23 January 2024?

1.5. Review of open action items [2/10]

(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
  • [X] QT4CG-060-01: NW to describe why we’re closing #899 without change
  • [ ] QT4CG-060-02: MK to sketch out a proposal with subsequence and subsequence-where.
  • [ ] QT4CG-060-03: MK to review PR and if there are no concerns, merge it without discussion next weeks
  • [X] QT4CG-060-04: CG to make a PR to remove numeric-compare and consider other functions

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 #947: Reorganise F+O chapter 15 [editorial]
  • PR #942: 530 Fix typo, escape-solidus not escape-uri-attributes
  • PR #933: 930 drop obsolete note about comments and PIs
  • PR #932: 931 Add rules for duration precision
  • PR #928: Minor edits through ch. 15
  • PR #737: 295: Boost the capability of recursive record types

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 #168: XSLT Extension Instructions invoking Named Templates

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #943: 187 Add FLWOR expression while clause
  • PR #941: 939 Remove fn:numeric-compare
  • PR #940: 878 Add subsequence-where function
  • PR #937: 779 hash function
  • PR #936: 877 revised rules for op:binary-less-than
  • PR #927: 861 Rewrite spec of deep lookup operator
  • PR #921: 920 Allow xsl:break and xsl:next-iteration within branch of xsl:switch
  • PR #916: 720 Allow methods in maps with access to $this
  • 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

1.6.5. Proposed for V4.0

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

  • Issue #938: Canonical serialization
  • Issue #937: 779 hash function
  • 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, drop, replace with $err:stack-trace ?
  • 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 #236: map:group-by or map:build with a sequence of keys
  • Issue #33: json parsing number type option
  • Issue #31: Extend FLWOR expressions to maps

2. Technical Agenda

2.1. PR #927: 861 Rewrite spec of deep lookup operator

See PR #927

2.2. PR #916: 720 Allow methods in maps with access to $this

See PR #916

2.3. PR #832: 77 Add map:deep-update and array:deep-update

See PR #832

2.4. PR #943: 187 Add FLWOR expression while clause

See PR #943

2.5. PR #941: 939 Remove fn:numeric-compare

See PR #941

2.6. PR #940: 878 Add subsequence-where function

See PR #940

2.7. PR #937: 779 hash function

See PR #937

2.8. PR #936: 877 revised rules for op:binary-less-than

See PR #936

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

See PR #880

See also discussion from meeting 058 and meeting 57.

3. Any other business