QT4 CG Meeting 064 Agenda 2024-02-06

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

• PR #956: 850-partial Editorial improvements to parse-html()
• PR #529: 528 fn:elements-to-maps

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 #997: 830 Drop F+O appendix D.4
• PR #996: 816 Allow a predicate in a filter expression to be a sequence of numbers
• PR #995: 937 revised in light of CG feedback
• PR #992: 888, 963: Error handling for unsatisfied context dependencies
• PR #987: 628 Define result order for distinct-values and duplicate-values
• PR #980: 911 Coercion to allow double to decimal etc
• PR #979: 966 Minor fixes to deep lookup
• PR #971: 970 XQFO: Context item → value

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

• Issue #964: fn:has-attributes

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

• PR #921: 920 Allow xsl:break and xsl:next-iteration within branch of xsl:switch
• 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

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

• PR #993: 989 (partial) Allow char() to take integer argument
• PR #988: 960 Pinned and labeled values
• PR #985: 720 Add lookup arrow expressions (method invocations)
• PR #984: 959-partial Add fn:seconds function
• PR #978: 948 Reflected the comments of the CG on the specification of scan-left and scan-right
• PR #977: Ignore this, it's just a test
• PR #975: 973 fn:parse-json, fn:json-to-xml: number-parser, fallback
• PR #972: 949 Partial Function Applications: Allow return of function name
• PR #969: 843-partial Standard, array & map functions: Equivalencies
• PR #968: 260 array:index-of
• PR #953: 617 Define record constructors
• PR #943: 187 Add FLWOR expression while clause
• PR #940: 878 Add subsequence-where function
• PR #916: 720 Allow methods in maps with access to $this
• PR #832: 77 Add map:deep-update and array:deep-update
• PR #795: 655 fn:sort-with

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

• Issue #982: Add position argument to scan-left and scan-right
• Issue #938: Canonical serialization
• 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 #236: map:group-by or map:build with a sequence of keys
• Issue #33: JSON Parsing & Serialization: Numbers
• Issue #31: Extend FLWOR expressions to maps