QT4 CG Meeting 073 Agenda 2024-04-16

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Agenda

This meeting will be hosted on Zoom at 16:00BST (15:00GMT, 17:00CEST, 11:00EDT)

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1. Administrivia

1.1. Roll call

Regrets: JLY

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 April. The following meeting is scheduled for 23 April.

Any regrets for 23 April 2024?

1.5. Review of open action items [5/19]

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

  • [ ] QT4CG-063-06: MK to consider refactoring the declare item type syntax to something like declare record
  • [X] QT4CG-064-08: NW to open an issue to try to resolve $search to $target consistently.
  • [X] QT4CG-069-02: NW to coordinate with MK to use the introspection features on the test suite.
  • [X] QT4CG-070-01: NW to review how records are formatted.
  • [ ] QT4CG-071-06: NW to clarify the cases that are distinguished by the leading empty string in path segments
  • [ ] QT4CG-072-01: MK to consider whether and when a choice type should be classified as a schema type
  • [ ] QT4CG-072-02: MK to clarify that the position variable is a single, positive integer.
  • [ ] QT4CG-072-03: NW to clarify the round-tripping of URIs
  • [ ] QT4CG-072-04: DN to raise an issue about having a function to test if a collation URI is supported

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 #1149: 1084 Add fos:default-description to support prose descriptions of defaults

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 #1115: XSLT - ability to call a function from xslt (not just xpath)
  • Issue #836: Add support for CSV 'dialect' features covered by the OKFN's Frictionless Data CSV spec in `fn:parse-csv` and related functions
  • Issue #397: Type names
  • Issue #298: Abstract supertype for map and array
  • Issue #115: Lookup operator on arrays of maps

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 #1152: 1146 Inline change log
  • PR #1151: 1138 Merge format and format-name params of format-number
  • PR #1150: 1142 Drop restriction disallowing items-equal with unordered
  • PR #1148: 1143 Coercion rules: handle choice types before atomization
  • PR #1147: QT4CG-072-01 Clarify schema type terminology
  • PR #1141: 1140 Replace 'search' with 'target' for indexing functions
  • PR #1137: 161 Variadic functions
  • PR #1125: 1094 Enhanced lookup expressions
  • PR #1117: 1116 Add options param to unparsed-text
  • PR #1108: 566-partial Describe a less aggressive %-encoding for fn:build-uri
  • PR #1098: 566-partial Editorial improvements for parse-uri
  • PR #1087: 1086 Editorial changes to array:values
  • PR #1068: 73 fn:graphemes
  • PR #1062: 150bis - revised proposal for fn:ranks
  • PR #1027: 150 fn:ranks

1.6.6. Proposed for V4.0

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

  • Issue #1069: fn:ucd
  • Issue #982: Add position argument to scan-left and scan-right
  • 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, nondeterminism
  • 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 #657: User-defined functions in main modules without `local` prefix
  • 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

2.1. PR #1152: 1146 Inline change log

See PR #1152

2.2. Making records and options consistent

2.3. Issue #1084: Incorrect rendition of option defaults

2.4. PR #1151: 1138 Merge format and format-name params of format-number

See PR #1151

2.5. PR #1150: 1142 Drop restriction disallowing items-equal with unordered

See PR #1150

2.6. PR #1148: 1143 Coercion rules: handle choice types before atomization

See PR #1148

2.7. PR #1147: QT4CG-072-01 Clarify schema type terminology

See PR #1147

2.8. PR #1141: 1140 Replace 'search' with 'target' for indexing functions

See PR #1141

2.9. PR #1137: 161 Variadic functions

See PR #1137

2.10. PR #1125: 1094 Enhanced lookup expressions

See PR #1125

2.11. PR #1117: 1116 Add options param to unparsed-text

See PR #1117

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

See PR #1087

2.13. PR #1068: 73 fn:graphemes

See PR #1068

2.14. PR #1062/#1027: fn:ranks

See PR #1062 See PR #1027

3. Any other business