QT4 CG Meeting 102 Agenda 2024-12-10

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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 10 December 2024. The following meeting is scheduled for 17 December.

The CG does not plan to meet on 24 or 31 December.

1.5. Review of open action items [1/9]

(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-097-02: MK to make the XSD schema component references into links to XSD
  • [ ] QT4CG-097-03: DN to proposal an axis for accessing the siblings of a node.
  • [ ] QT4CG-101-01: MK to add a way to query the sort order of a map
  • [ ] QT4CG-101-02: MK to review the option “random” for a map order option
  • [ ] QT4CG-101-03: MK to provide a bit more of the motivation for map ordering.
  • [ ] QT4CG-101-04: MK to consider how map ordering applies to records.

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 #1227: 150 PR resubmission for fn ranks

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 #1643: 1103 Normalize line endings in CSV prior to parsing
  • PR #1642: 1637 Add/Amend notes to fn:function-lookup
  • PR #1641: 1554-change-formal-specification-heading
  • PR #1640: 1639 Add missing rule for elements-to-maps
  • PR #1629: 1628 Clarify rules for XQuery version declaration

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 #1592: fn:elements-to-maps: Observations
  • Issue #1588: Move the Streamability chapter?
  • Issue #1457: Common name for maps & arrays

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #1638: 1634 Update description of decimal properties in the static context
  • PR #1636: Initial conversion of EXPath Binary/File
  • PR #1633: 1627 Tweaks to schema type functions
  • PR #1622: 1619 Specify XSLT map-for-key function
  • PR #1620: 332 Add options for fn:path
  • PR #1617: 1606 Drop named item types, refine named record types, esp in XSLT
  • PR #1616: A little cleanup; support function/xfunction globally
  • PR #1609: 564 Ordered Maps
  • PR #1587: 557 Add fn:binary-resource

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 #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 #748: Parse functions: consistency
  • 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

2. Technical agenda

2.1. PR #1636: Initial conversion of EXPath Binary/File

See PR #1636

JWL has done an initial conversion of the EXPath binary and file specifications to the QT4CG build system. They won’t (usefully) build before they are committed to the repo, but in the short term, you can see formatted versions here:

2.2. PR #1587: 557 Add fn:binary-resource

See PR #1587

2.3. PR #1609: 564 Ordered Maps

See PR #1609

2.4. PR #1616: A little cleanup; support function/xfunction globally

See PR #1616

2.5. PR #1638: 1634 Update description of decimal properties in the static context

See PR #1638

2.6. PR #1633: 1627 Tweaks to schema type functions

See PR #1633

2.7. PR #1620: 332 Add options for fn:path

See PR #1620

2.8. PR #1622: 1619 Specify XSLT map-for-key function

See PR #1622

2.9. PR #1617: 1606 Drop named item types, refine named record types, esp in XSLT

See PR #1617

3. Any other business