QT4 CG Meeting 071 Agenda 2024-03-26

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Agenda

This meeting will be hosted on Zoom at 16:00GMT (17:00CET, 12:00EDT, 09:00PDT).

Reminder: The QT4CG meeting is scheduled on UK/European civil time. The United States has switched to daylight saving time, so the meeting will be one hour later there until the UK/Europe also switches (on 31 March 2024).

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 26 March. The following meeting is scheduled for 2 April, the day after Easter Monday. That’s a virtual Monday, shall we meet, or take a week off?

1.5. Review of open action items [1/6]

(Items marked [X] are believed to have been closed via email before this agenda was posted.)

  • [X] QT4CG-063-04: NW to try to add test review to the editorial meeting.
  • [ ] 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-069-02: NW to coordinate with MK to use the introspection features on the test suite.
    • In progress…
  • [ ] QT4CG-070-01: NW to review how records are formatted.
  • [ ] QT4CG-070-02: MK to raise the line separators issue in parse-csv.

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 #832: 77 Add map:deep-update and array:deep-update
  • 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 #1106: 859 lookup syntax problems
  • PR #1097: 566-partial Fix colon issue in URI parsing
  • PR #1092: 1039 Add notes referring to fn:collation-key
  • PR #1078: 1060-partial Formatting XPath/XQuery
  • PR #1076: 1075 Drop 'with' expressions

1.6.3. 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

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #1112: 1110-partial New error codes
  • PR #1108: 566-partial Describe a less aggressive %-encoding for fn:build-uri
  • PR #1100: 99 fn:equal() function to compare sequences and arrays
  • PR #1098: 566-partial Editorial improvements per recent discussion
  • PR #1093: 1091 Add fn:collation function
  • PR #1087: 1086 Editorial changes to array:values
  • PR #1077: Correct the status of new language features
  • PR #1074: Confirm status of provisional functions
  • PR #1071: 1070 Bare Brace map constructor syntax
  • PR #1068: 73 fn:graphemes
  • PR #1062: 150bis - revised proposal for fn:ranks
  • PR #1059: 1019 XQFO: Unknown option parameters
  • PR #1027: 150 fn:ranks

1.6.5. Proposed for V4.0

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

  • Issue #938: Canonical serialization
  • Issue #934: String comparison in deep-equal
  • 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 #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 #150: fn:ranks: Produce all ranks in applying a function on the items of a sequence
  • Issue #31: Extend FLWOR expressions to maps

2. Technical Agenda

The order of items may be a bit chaotic. It’s an attempt to pick off both some low hanging fruit and some significant items. Proposals to change the sequence will be happily considered.

2.1. PR #1059: 1019 XQFO: Unknown option parameters

See PR #1059

2.2. PR #1077: Correct the status of new language features

See PR #1077

2.3. PR #1074 Confirm status of provisional functions

See PR #1074

2.4. PR #1088 and #1098: improvements to parse-uri/build-uri

See PR #1108: 566-partial Describe a less aggressive %-encoding for fn:build-uri

See PR #1098: 566-partial Editorial improvements per recent discussion

2.5. PR #1087 1086 Editorial changes to array:values

See PR #1087: 1086 Editorial changes to array:values

2.6. PR 1093: 1091 Add fn:collation function

See PR #1093: 1091 Add fn:collation function

2.7. PR #1071: 1070 Bare Brace map constructor syntax

See PR #1071: 1070 Bare Brace map constructor syntax

2.8. PR #1100: 99 fn:equal() function to compare sequences and arrays

See PR #1100: 99 fn:equal() function to compare sequences and arrays

2.9. PR #1068: 73 fn:graphemes

See PR #1068

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

See PR #832

3. Any other business