QT4 CG Meeting 097 Agenda 2024-11-05

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Agenda

This meeting will be hosted on Zoom at 16:00GMT (17:00CET, 11:00EST)

The Zoom meeting ID is 831 9996 6275; the passcode is 707664.

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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 5 November 2024. The following meeting is scheduled for 12 November.

1.5. Review of open action items [1/7]

(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.
  • [ ] QT4CG-096-01: MK to add a note to the Terminology section about ++ and **
  • [X] QT4CG-096-02: NW to create an issue about the indentation parameters.

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 #1505: 1503 Add err:map, err:stack-trace, err:additional to XSLT
    • PR #1505: 1503 Add err:map, err:stack-trace, err:additional to XSLT
  • PR #1454: 1449 Relax rules on multiple xsl:includes
  • 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 #1541: QT4CG-096-1 Add notes explaining EBNF notation

1.6.3. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #1547: 1542 Add "formal" definitions of non-primitive axes
  • PR #1546: 1538 Add XSLT support for json-lines
  • PR #1545: 1539 New civil-timezone function
  • PR #1544: Allow (some) self-references in global variables
  • PR #1543: Drop fn:element-number
  • PR #1541: QT4CG-096-1 Add notes explaining EBNF notation
  • PR #1535: 1478 Drop variadic functions
  • PR #1523: 148 New functions to get type information
  • PR #1470: 689 fn:stack-trace: replace with $err:stack-trace
  • PR #1454: 1449 Relax rules on multiple xsl:includes

1.6.4. 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 #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 #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 #1523: 148 New functions to get type information

See PR #1523.

2.2. PR #1547: 1542 Add "formal" definitions of non-primitive axes

See PR #1547.

2.3. PR #1545: 1539 New civil-timezone function

See PR #1545.

2.4. PR #1544: Allow (some) self-references in global variables

See PR #1544.

2.5. PR #1543: Drop fn:element-number

See PR #1543.

2.6. PR #1546: 1538 Add XSLT support for json-lines

See PR #1546.

2.7. PR #1535: 1478 Drop variadic functions

See PR #1535.

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

See PR #1470.

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

See PR #1454.

3. Any other business