QT4 CG Meeting 094 Agenda 2024-10-15

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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

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 15 October 2024. The following meeting is scheduled for 22 October.

Note: The QT4CG operates on European civil time. In Europe and the United Kingdom, summer time ends on 27 October. In the United States, summer time ends on 3 November. That means the meeting of 29 October will be one hour later in the United States.

1.5. Review of open action items [3/8]

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

  • [ ] QT4CG-080-07: NW to update the build instructions in the README
  • [ ] QT4CG-082-02: DN to work with MK to come to agreement on the fn:ranks proposal
  • [ ] QT4CG-088-01: NW to consider how best to add a dedication to MSM.
  • [ ] QT4CG-088-04: [Someone] needs to update the processing model diagram needs vis-a-vis the static typing feature
  • [ ] QT4CG-089-01: CG to draft a PR that attempts to resolve the operators described in #755 to a smaller number of orthogonal choices.
  • [X] QT4CG-093-01: NW to fix the bug in the burndown charts
  • [X] QT4CG-093-02: NW to resolve the F&O search box one way or the other
  • [X] QT4CG-093-03: NW to make dashboard links redirect to the issue/PR when they’re no longer on the dashboard

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 #1296: 982 Rewrite of scan-left and scan-right
  • PR #1283: 77b Update expressions
  • PR #1062: 150bis revised proposal for fn:ranks
  • 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 #1492: 1312 Add ws:explicit annotations
  • PR #1490: 1308 In fn:apply, Correct $array to $arguments
  • PR #1489: 1483 return type of fn:error
  • PR #1467: Modest editorial corrections to XSLT specs through 2.7

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 #1473: fn:identity: make it variadic
  • Issue #1305: Almost all functions in FO that must process multiple string items, can have as a parameter only a single collation
  • Issue #1183: transient() - a function to make functions nondeterministic

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #1472: 1471 JSON Serialization: Sequences on Top Level
  • PR #1470: 689 fn:stack-trace: replace with $err:stack-trace
  • PR #1488: 1487 in xsl:array, drop option to construct arrays from arrays
  • PR #1454: 1449 Relax rules on multiple xsl:includes
  • PR #1442: 1394 Add new default priority rules
  • PR #1378: 1375 bugs in pattern syntax

1.6.5. Required for V4.0

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

  • Issue #1252: Add a new function `fn:html-doc`
  • Issue #1240: $sequence-of-maps ? info()
  • Issue #1238: XSLT on-no-match="shallow-copy-all" - revised rules
  • Issue #1169: Maps & Arrays: Consistency & Terminology
  • Issue #1127: Binary resources
  • Issue #1045: Functions to manage namespace usage
  • Issue #1021: Extend `fn:doc`, `fn:collection` and `fn:uri-collection` with options maps
  • Issue #1011: fn:transform() improvements
  • Issue #986: Numeric Comparisons
  • Issue #967: XPath Appendix I: Comparisons
  • Issue #868: fn:intersperse → fn:join, array:join($arrays, $separator)
  • Issue #826: Arrays: Representation of single members of an array
  • Issue #767: parse-html(): case of SVG element names
  • Issue #748: Parse functions: consistency
  • Issue #689: fn:stack-trace: 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

2. Technical agenda

2.1. PR #1472: 1471 JSON Serialization: Sequences on Top Level

See PR #1472

2.2. PR #1470: 689 fn:stack-trace: replace with $err:stack-trace

See PR #1470

2.3. PR #1488: 1487 in xsl:array, drop option to construct arrays from arrays

See PR #1488

2.4. PR #1454: 1449 Relax rules on multiple xsl:includes

See PR #1454

2.5. PR #1442: 1394 Add new default priority rules

See PR #1442

2.6. PR #1378: 1375 bugs in pattern syntax

See PR #1378

3. Any other business