QT4 CG Meeting 133 Agenda 2025-08-19

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Agenda

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

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 19 August 2025.

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

The next meeting is planned for 16 September 2025.

1.5. Review of open action items `[1/11]`

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

[ ] 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
[ ] QT4CG-131-01: MK to add a non-schema aware result.
[ ] QT4CG-131-02: MK to expand on the $E := <e A="p q r"… example
[ ] QT4CG-131-03: MK to change “invert” to “transpose” in the matrix example.
[ ] QT4CG-132-01: MK to add more examples for innermost, outermost, has-children and path with JNodes
[ ] QT4CG-132-02: MK to double-check the signature of innermost
[ ] QT4CG-132-03: MK to double-check stray text in h.i. in path
[X] QT4CG-132-04: MK to add resize to the rectangle in the example of chaining method calls and flesh out the example.

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 #2120: 2007 Revised design for xsl:array
PR #2019: 1776: XSLT template rules for maps and array

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 #2164: Fix return type in `fn:parse-csv` signature
PR #2162: QT4CG-132-04 Expand the rectangle?area example

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 #2143: JNodes and Methods
Issue #1714: sibling:: axis. Action Item QT4CG-097-03
Issue #350: CompPath (Composite-objects path) Expressions
Issue #119: Allow a map's key value to be any sequence
Issue #106: Decorators' support
Issue #34: Proposal to introduce the set datatype in XPath 4

1.6.4. Substantive PRs

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

PR #2168: 2139 Make hexBinary and base64Binary fully comparable
PR #2167: 2166 Reinstate lost text for lookup expressions
PR #2160: 2073 data model changes for JNodes and Sequences
PR #2155: 2150 Define patterns for JNodes
PR #2123: 2051: XSLT group by cluster
PR #2120: 2007 Revised design for xsl:array
PR #2116: 2112 Refine/revise the rules for get() in node tests
PR #2071: 77c deep update
PR #2019: 1776: XSLT template rules for maps and array

2. Technical agenda

2.1. PR #2168: 2139 Make hexBinary and base64Binary fully comparable

See PR #2168

2.2. PR #2167: 2166 Reinstate lost text for lookup expressions

See PR #2167

2.3. PR #2160: 2073 data model changes for JNodes and Sequences

See PR #2160

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

See PR #2116

Deferred last week, ready for discussion this week?

2.5. PR #2155: 2150 Define patterns for JNodes

See PR #2155