QT4 CG Meeting 087 Agenda 2024-07-23

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

• PR #1231: 1193 Parsing Functions: Empty input
• PR #1227: 150 PR resubmission for fn ranks
• PR #1062: 150bis - revised proposal for fn:ranks
• 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 #1332: 1317 Fix the record subtyping rules
• PR #1328: 1326 wording improvements for concat and string-join

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

• PR #1333: 1329 Add content option to load-xquery-module
• PR #1331: 1324 Introduce markup for executable specs
• PR #1327: 1309 bare brace ambiguities
• PR #1296: 982 Rewrite of scan-left and scan-right
• PR #1283: 77b: Update expressions
• PR #1263: 1224 Add xsl:accumulator-rule/@priority attribute
• PR #1228: – Adding the BLAKE3 hashing algorithm to fn:hash
• PR #1209: 1183 Add transient mode and the transient{} expression
• PR #1185: 1179 array:values, map:values → array:get, map:get
• PR #832: 77 Lookup returning path selection

The following issues are labeled “required for V4.0”.

• Issue #1252: Add a new function `fn:html-doc`
• Issue #1240: $sequence-of-maps ? info()
• Issue #1238: XSLT on-no-match="shallow-copy-all" - revised rules
• Issue #1235: Function Identity: Treating function items with identical bodies
• Issue #1202: XQFO: Rendering of new/updated functions
• Issue #1169: Maps & Arrays: Consistency & Terminology
• Issue #1127: Binary resources
• Issue #1045: Functions to manage namespace usage
• Issue #1021: Extend `fn:doc`, `fn:collection` and `fn:uri-collection` with options maps
• Issue #1014: Predicates, sequences of numbers: Feedback
• Issue #1011: fn:transform() improvements
• Issue #986: Numeric Comparisons
• Issue #967: XPath Appendix I: Comparisons
• Issue #868: fn:intersperse → fn:join, array:join($arrays, $separator)
• Issue #826: Arrays: Representation of single members of an array
• Issue #767: parse-html(): case of SVG element names
• Issue #755: Expression for binding the Context Value
• Issue #748: Parse functions: consistency
• Issue #689: fn:stack-trace: keep, drop, replace with $err:stack-trace ?
• Issue #675: XSLT streaming rules for new constructs
• Issue #501: Error handling: Rethrow errors; finally block
• Issue #490: Control over schema validation in parse-xml(), doc(), etc.
• Issue #407: XSLT-specific context properties used in function items
• Issue #272: Setting parameter values in xsl:use-package
• Issue #69: fn:document, fn:function-available: default arguments