QT4 CG Meeting 068 Agenda 2024-03-05

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Agenda

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

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1. Administrivia

1.1. Roll call

Regrets DN.

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 5 March. The following meeting is scheduled for 12 March.

Any regrets for 12 March 2024?

1.5. Review of open action items [1/12]

(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-063-01: MK to revise #956 especially with respect to the options parameter
  • [ ] QT4CG-063-02: JK to consider whether the roman numeral example is appropriate for the spec.
  • [ ] QT4CG-063-04: NW to try to add test review to the editorial meeting.
  • [ ] QT4CG-063-05: MK to revise PR #953 to take account of CG’s comments
  • [ ] QT4CG-063-06: MK to consider refactoring the declare item type syntax to something like declare record
  • [ ] QT4CG-064-08: NW to open an issue to try to resolve $search to $target consistently.
  • [ ] QT4CG-066-01: MK to add a note that the grammar rules for regular expressions apply after comments are removed
  • [X] QT4CG-067-01: NW to ask the XML Prague organizers for hosting
  • [ ] QT4CG-067-02: MK to revert the changes to the test suite for EBV (PR 1003)

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 #956: 850-partial Editorial improvements to parse-html()
  • PR #529: 528 fn: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 #1051: 1043 Clarification of CSV edge cases
  • PR #1046: 1038 take-while predicate no longer uses EBV

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 #1017: Change csv-to-xml() to produce an XHTML table
  • Issue #825: array:members-at
  • Issue #413: New function: parse-csv()

1.6.4. XSLT focused

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

  • PR #1015: 1013 [XSLT] Clarify effect of accumulator capture on non-element nodes
  • 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

1.6.5. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #1053: 1047 Default predicate for some#1 and every#1
  • PR #1049: 340-partial fn:format-number: Specifying decimal format
  • PR #832: 77 Add map:deep-update and array:deep-update
  • PR #1027: 150 fn:ranks

1.6.6. Proposed for V4.0

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

  • 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 #882: fn:chain or fn:compose
  • 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 #150: fn:ranks: Produce all ranks in applying a function on the items of a sequence
  • Issue #33: JSON Parsing & Serialization: Numbers
  • Issue #31: Extend FLWOR expressions to maps

2. Technical Agenda

2.1. Review of blocked PRs

What’s the status on these?

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

2.2. PR #1053: 1047 Default predicate for some#1 and every#1

See PR #1053

2.3. PR #1049: 340-partial fn:format-number: Specifying decimal format

See PR #1049

2.4. PR #1027: 150 fn:ranks

See PR #1027

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

See PR #832

2.6. Issue #938: Canonical serialization

See issue #938

2.7. Issue #908: Function identity: documentation still too vague

See issue #908

2.8. Issue #850: fn:parse-html: Finalization

See issue #850

2.9. Issue #829: fn:boolean: EBV support for more item types

See issue #829

2.10. Issue #689: fn:stack-trace: keep, drop, replace with $err:stack-trace ?

See issue #689

2.11. Issue #583: array:replace(), etc

See issue #583

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

See issue #557

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

See issue #340

2.14. Issue #283: Enumeration types

See issue #283

2.15. Issue #150: fn:ranks: Produce all ranks in applying a function on the items of a sequence

See issue #150

2.16. Issue #33: JSON Parsing & Serialization: Numbers

See issue #33

2.17. Issue #31: Extend FLWOR expressions to maps

See issue #31

3. Any other business