QT4 CG Meeting 078 Agenda 2024-05-21

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

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 #1223: Minor: fixed URL
• PR #1222: 1214: hash examples
• PR #1220: 73 copy&paste typo in fn:graphemes (combining diaeresis should be ZWJ)

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

• Issue #652: Defining a common function library for XPath, XSLT, and XQuery applications
• Issue #116: Clarify the fn:transform function() wrt multiple top-level elements

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

• PR #1181: 296 Allow default-namespace=##any
• 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

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

• PR #1228: Adding the BLAKE3 hashing algorithm to fn:hash
• PR #1227: PR resubmission for fn ranks
• PR #1219: 1218 Drop use of union(A,B) syntax
• PR #1217: 1207 Allow numeric predicates when filtering arrays
• PR #1213: 1199 Add ellipsis markup for arguments in variadic functions
• PR #1212: 1208 correct details of formerly-reserved function names
• PR #1211: QT4CG-076-01 Add examples of coercions
• PR #1209: 1183 Add transient mode and the transient{} expression
• PR #1197: 1192 Allow fn as abbreviation for function
• PR #1191: 1167, 934 deep equal merge collations param
• PR #1185: 1179 array:values, map:values → contents
• 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 #1062: 150bis - revised proposal for fn:ranks

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 #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