QT4 CG Meeting 104 Agenda 2025-01-07

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Agenda

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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 7 January 2025. The following meeting is scheduled for 14 January 2025. Happy New Year!

1.5. Review of open action items [0/9]

(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-103-01: MK to add an example of showing all the properties for an untyped node.
  • [ ] QT4CG-103-02: MK to review other ways of handling namespaces in fn:path

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 #1587: 557 Add fn:binary-resource
  • 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 #1673: 1407 TOC structure for types
  • PR #1669: 1667 Revise handling of non-XML characters in parse-json
  • PR #1668: Minor copy edits (no issue raised)
  • PR #1666: 1649 result of function annotations
  • PR #1665: 1650 Tidy up fn:type-of
  • PR #1663: Remove DTD/stylesheet distractions at the top of the schema
  • PR #1670: Action QT4CS-097-02: Enable xtermref links to XSD SCM property names

1.6.3. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #1679: 1678 Define element(E,T) and attribute(A,T) in terms of "derives-from"
  • PR #1677: 1675 Fixes for CSV parsing
  • PR #1676: 1621 Capabilities of Collations
  • PR #1674: 1662 Allow composite sort keys in xsl:sort
  • PR #1671: 1261 New fn:divide-decimals() function
  • PR #1617: 1606 Drop named item types, refine named record types, esp in XSLT
  • PR #1609: 1651 Ordered Maps

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 #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 #1679: 1678 Define element(E,T) and attribute(A,T) in terms of "derives-from"

See PR #1679

2.2. PR #1677: 1675 Fixes for CSV parsing

See PR #1677

2.3. PR #1676: 1621 Capabilities of Collations

See PR #1676

2.4. PR #1674: 1662 Allow composite sort keys in xsl:sort

See PR #1674

2.5. PR #1671: 1261 New fn:divide-decimals() function

See PR #1671

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

See PR #1617

This PR currently has merge conflicts, we’ll discuss it if those are resolved.

2.7. PR #1609: 1651 Ordered Maps

See PR #1609

3. Any other business