QT4 CG Meeting 106 Agenda 2025-01-21

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Agenda

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

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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 21 January 2025. The following meeting is scheduled for 28 January 2025.

1.5. Review of open action items [0/6]

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

  • [ ] QT4CG-082-02: DN to work with MK to come to agreement on the fn:ranks proposal
  • [ ] QT4CG-088-04: [Someone] needs to update the processing model diagram needs vis-a-vis the static typing feature
  • [ ] 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 #1711: 1705 Say that max precision is implementation-defined
  • PR #1710: 1709 Updated type diagrams
  • PR #1700: Remove some dead .DS_Store files

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 #1606: Drop named item types other than named record types
  • Issue #1494: Records: Introduction?
  • Issue #1176: Use fn:parse-uri to check whether a filepath is relative or absolute

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #1686: 1685 Pipeline Operator
  • PR #1701: Add dedication to MSM (action QT4CG-088-01)
  • PR #1703: 1651 ordered maps
  • PR #1708: 1485 Add xsl:record-type declaration
  • PR #1712: 1706 Drop "else if" and "else" clauses from braced conditionals

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 #407: XSLT-specific context properties used in function items
  • Issue #272: Setting parameter values in xsl:use-package

2. Technical agenda

2.1. PR #1701: Add dedication to MSM (action QT4CG-088-01)

See PR #1701.

2.2. PR #1712: 1706 Drop "else if" and "else" clauses from braced conditionals

See PR #1712.

2.3. PR #1686: 1685 Pipeline Operator

See PR #1686.

2.4. PR #1703: 1651 ordered maps

See PR #1703.

2.5. PR #1708: 1485 Add xsl:record-type declaration

See PR #1708.

3. Any other business