QT4 CG Meeting 131 Agenda 2025-07-29

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Agenda

This meeting will be hosted on Zoom at 16:00BST (15:00GMT, 17:00CEST, 11:00EDT).

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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 29 July 2025. The CG will not meet on 5 August. The following meeting is scheduled for 12 August 2025.

The CG will take a short recess in late August. We will not meet on 26 August, 2 September, or 9 September.

1.5. Review of open action items `[0/5]`

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

[ ] QT4CG-082-02: DN to work with NW to come to agreement on the fn:ranks proposal
[ ] QT4CG-116-01: Add a specific error code for unsupported options on doc and doc-available
[ ] QT4CG-118-01: MK to make an incorrect type raise an error in #1906
[ ] QT4CG-127-01: NW to diagram the JTree representing arbitrary XDM content.
[ ] QT4CG-128-03: NW to compare the file: module against the equivalent XProc 3.1 steps

1.6. Review of open pull requests and issues

This section summarizes all of the issues and pull requests that need to be resolved before we can finish. See Technical Agenda below for the focus of this meeting.

1.6.1. Blocked

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

PR #2124: 573 Functions to Construct Trees
PR #2063: 1996 Lookups, KeySpecifier: Literal, ContextValueRef
PR #2019: 1776: XSLT template rules for maps and array
PR #1062: 150bis revised proposal 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 #2129: 2099 Rename fn:jnode and jnode-type
PR #2117: 2082 parse-html options
PR #2115: 2084 - document order of axis steps when context value is a sequence
PR #2114: 2087 Change adaptive serialization of JNodes
PR #2113: 2102 Make type labels in diagram consistent

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 #2086: Can the ¶value property of a JNode be (or contain) a JNode?
Issue #1978: Function `map:build` does not allow expressing the dependency of a value on its key. Some simple types of maps cannot be built.
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 #1514: Editorial: optional position argument in function signature for for-each and other HOF
Issue #1175: XPath: Optional parameters in the definition of an inline function
Issue #150: fn:ranks: Produce all ranks in applying a function on the items of a sequence

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

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

PR #2116: 2112 Refine/revise the rules for get() in node tests
PR #2119: 2080 allow let $($head, $tail)
PR #2120: 2007 Revised design for xsl:array
PR #2130: Proposed new operator keywords: precedes, follows
PR #2123: 2051: XSLT group by cluster
PR #2019: 1776: XSLT template rules for maps and array
PR #2071: 77c deep update

2. Technical agenda

2.1. PR #2116: 2112 Refine/revise the rules for get() in node tests

See PR #2116

2.2. PR #2119: 2080 allow let $($head, $tail)

See PR #2119

2.3. PR #2120: 2007 Revised design for xsl:array

See PR #2120

2.4. PR #2130: Proposed new operator keywords: precedes, follows

See PR #2130

2.5. PR #2123: 2051: XSLT group by cluster

See PR #2123