QT4 CG Meeting 107 Agenda 2025-01-28

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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 28 January 2025. The following meeting is scheduled for 4 February 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-103-01: MK to add an example of showing all the properties for an untyped node.
  • [ ] QT4CG-106-01: NW to remove the dead wood from the XSLT build.
  • [ ] QT4CG-106-02: MK to apply the typos changes and then merge this PR #1703.
  • [ ] QT4CG-106-03: MK to write the XPath that puts map keys in record order as an example.

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 #1732: 1720 grammar simplification
  • PR #1731: 1719 drop shared spec from build
  • PR #1728: Fix CSS for production tables

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 #1252: Add a new function `fn:html-doc`
  • Issue #1124: Formatting XPath/XQuery: Preferences, Conventions
  • Issue #1069: fn:ucd
  • Issue #998: regular expression addition - lookbehind assertions and lookahead assertions
  • Issue #981: Identify optional arguments in callback functions
  • Issue #885: fn:uuid
  • Issue #747: QName literals
  • Issue #76: non-deterministic time

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #1708: 1485 Add xsl:record-type declaration
  • PR #1722: 1717 define focus functions using pipeline operator
  • PR #1727: 1725 Define more detailed rules for duplicates in maps

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 #1708: 1485 Add xsl:record-type declaration

See PR #1708

2.2. PR #1722: 1717 define focus functions using pipeline operator

See PR #1722

2.3. PR #1727: 1725 Define more detailed rules for duplicates in maps

See PR #1727

2.4. Path to completion?

At some point in the life of a working group, the consensus shifts from “there’s more to do” to “we need to finish”. I think the QT4CG is starting to feel that tension.

Discuss.

3. Any other business