QT4 CG Meeting 119 Agenda 2025-04-29

The following PRs are open but have merge conflicts or comments which suggest they aren’t ready for action.

• PR #1942: 37 Support sequence, array, and map destructuring declarations
• PR #1283: 77b Update expressions
• PR #1062: 150bis revised proposal for fn:ranks

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 #1950: 1704 Add rules/notes for BOM and related topics
• PR #1945: 1568 unicode case blind collation
• PR #1906: 1797 elements-to-maps-conversion-plan function

It has been proposed that the following issues be closed without action. If you think discussion is necessary, please say so.

• Issue #1844: Drop mapping arrow operator
• Issue #1416: Key-value pairs: built-in record type `pair`
• Issue #1319: Specification Documents: Editors and Contributors

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

• PR #1961: Attempt to show that xsl:record allows extra attributes
• PR #1959: 1953 (part) XSLT Worked example using methods to implement atomic sets
• PR #1956: 1954 (part) Private variables and functions don't need to be in the module namespace
• PR #1933: 1271 fn:xsd-validator() function
• PR #1894: Additional examples to fn:chain - in a new branch
• PR #1888: 366 xsl:package-location
• PR #1883: 882 Replace fn:chain by fn:compose
• PR #1587: 557 Add fn:unparsed-binary function

The following issues are labeled “required for V4.0”.

• Issue #1777: Shallow copy in XSLT with maps and arrays
• Issue #1584: Review the XML Schema and RELAX NG schemas for XSLT 4.0 for compatibility
• Issue #1240: $sequence-of-maps ? info()
• 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 #748: Parse functions: consistency
• Issue #714: Function annotations in XSLT
• Issue #675: XSLT streaming rules for new constructs
• Issue #407: XSLT-specific context properties used in function items
• Issue #366: Support xsl:use-package with xsl:package-location
• Issue #272: Setting parameter values in xsl:use-package

The following issues need to be triaged.

• Issue #1958: Typo in map:build
• Issue #1957: Schema for XSLT incorrectly allows mixed content for xsl:output
• Issue #1955: fn:doc, fn:parse-xml: entity expansion
• Issue #1954: Private fields in records
• Issue #1952: Change option name from xsi-schema-location to use-xsi-schema-location
• Issue #1951: Some nits regarding the method attribute
• Issue #1949: fn:element-to-map: Updated Feedback
• Issue #1948: fn:element-to-map: Tests
• Issue #1946: We need examples of a record with an entry that is a %method and invoking this method with the result it must produce
• Issue #1944: Try/Catch/Finally - order of evaluation
• Issue #1938: Invoking coerced methods
• Issue #1935: doc-available() with invalid options
• Issue #1934: Supporting RELAX NG validation
• Issue #1920: Parse functions: determinism
• Issue #1912: Error handling: `fn:throw`
• Issue #1903: `fn:scan-left`, `fn:scan-right`: missing steps
• Issue #1889: HTML serialization: `html-version` and `version` parameters; allowed values
• Issue #1885: Use the spcification grammar markup to define the regular expression grammar in F&O
• Issue #1871: Arrays and maps: consistency
• Issue #1868: array:members() to include index position
• Issue #1859: Question on `fn:chain` and `err:FOAP0001`
• Issue #1852: fn:values-except: Return atomic values that occur in A but not in B
• Issue #1844: Drop mapping arrow operator
• Issue #1795: XSLT templates: Matching values in a map by key
• Issue #1787: Sorted maps revisited
• Issue #1775: Navigation in JSON trees
• Issue #1774: Nomenclature: relabelling
• Issue #1736: Add option retain-order=false when constructing maps
• Issue #1718: Ordered Maps: positions in callback functions
• Issue #1697: Add documentary names to callback function signatures
• Issue #1661: QName arguments: also allow strings
• Issue #1618: Adaptive serialization: doubles
• Issue #1591: Implausible filter expressions
• Issue #1583: JSON: Parsing and serializing numbers, often undesired E notation
• Issue #1528: Computed node constructors: observations
• Issue #1484: Functions that expect a record type should make it extensible
• Issue #1479: Default element namespace in XQuery: interaction of 'fixed' and '##any'
• Issue #1459: Function properties and arities (editorial)
• Issue #1416: Key-value pairs: built-in record type `pair`
• Issue #1310: add fn:match-groups() function
• Issue #1307: For symmetry, add functions array:scan-left and array:scan-right
• Issue #1175: XPath: Optional parameters in the definition of an inline function
• Issue #760: Serialize functions: consistency
• Issue #641: Serialization fallback.

See issue #1832

See issue #1799

See issue #1797

See issue #760

See issue #641

See issue #119