QT4 CG Meeting 062 Agenda 2024-01-23

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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 23 January. The following meeting is scheduled for 30 January.

Any regrets for 30 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-056-04: MK to write a proposal for adding a select attribute to xsl:text
  • [ ] QT4CG-058-02: MK to consider providing more advice about the pitfalls of mixing decimal and double when sorting
  • [ ] QT4CG-061-01: MK to review the comments CG made on the PR #927.
    • NW to merge PR #927 after MK review

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 #958: 951 Parameters with default values: fn:lang, fn:id, fn:idref, fn:element-id
  • PR #952: 945 module import contradiction
  • PR #950: Minor edits (examples, rules)
  • PR #941: 939 Remove fn:numeric-compare
  • PR #936: 877 revised rules for op:binary-less-than
  • PR #927: 861 Rewrite spec of deep lookup operator

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 #818: Foxpath integration
  • Issue #693: QT4 Tests without counterpart in the specs
  • Issue #639: fn:void: Naming, Arguments

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 #962: 946 fn:iterate-while → fn:while-do, fn:do-until
  • PR #957: 948 Added fn:scan-left and fn:scan-right
  • PR #956: 850-partial Editorial improvements to parse-html()
  • PR #953: 617 Define record constructors
  • PR #943: 187 Add FLWOR expression while clause
  • PR #940: 878 Add subsequence-where function
  • PR #937: 779 hash function
  • 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 #874: 878 Proposed extension to subsequence
  • PR #832: 77 Add map:deep-update and array:deep-update

1.6.6. 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. Issue #843: Standard, array & map functions: Equivalencies

Christian Gruen proposed putting a discussion of issue 843 on today’s agenda as a supplement to further discussion of issue 872. I’m going to suggest we time box that to about 15 minutes unless we feel like we’re making very substantial progress. He also proposed a list of PRs for discussion this week which I’ve included below.

2.2. PRs #940 and #874: 878 Add subsequence-where function

See PR #940 and PR #874.

2.3. PR #937: 779 hash function

See PR #937

2.4. PR #962: 946 fn:iterate-while → fn:while-do, fn:do-until

See PR #962

2.5. PR #956: 850-partial Editorial improvements to parse-html()

See PR #956

2.6. PR #957: 948 Added fn:scan-left and fn:scan-right

See PR #957

2.7. PR #953: 617 Define record constructors

See PR #953

3. Any other business