QT4 CG Meeting 146 Agenda 2025-12-16

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Agenda

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

See the meeting logistics page for more details.

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 16 December 2025.

After this meeting, the CG will recess for the end-of-year holidays. The following meeting will be on 6 January 2026.

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

  • [ ] QT4CG-143-01: CG to make another attempt at binary functions.
  • [ ] QT4CG-143-02: MK to try to recover the ability to extract formal equivalences into tests
  • [ ] QT4CG-143-03: JK to look for C14N test suites.
  • [ ] QT4CG-144-01: MK to consider if any now lost value comparisons should be added as examples.
  • [ ] QT4CG-144-02: MK to add notes about edge cases: sequence normalization and character maps for 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 #2274: 407 Function items capturing XSLT context components
  • PR #2266: 540 system-property equivalent for XQuery
  • PR #2247: Deferred Evaluation in XPath - the f:generator record
  • PR #2160: 2073 data model changes for JNodes and Sequences
  • PR #2124: 573 Functions to Construct Trees
  • PR #2071: 77c deep update
  • PR #2019: 1776: XSLT template rules for maps and array

1.6.2. Substantive PRs

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

  • PR #2342: 2341 Canonical JSON serialization
  • PR #2336: 2334 Revise XSLT pattern syntax and semantics
  • PR #2329: 2327 Rename sequence-join as intersperse
  • PR #2324: 2278 bin:infer-encoding, bin:decode-string
  • PR #2323: 2322 Generalize simplified stylesheets
  • PR #2313: 2298 XQFO rules: definition of default values
  • PR #2309: 2299 Allow SimpleMapExpr after ArrowExpr
  • PR #2283: 2276 Relax XSLT rules on Extension Attributes
  • PR #2282: 2278 Add function bin:infer-encoding; simplify bin:decode-string
  • PR #2274: 407 Function items capturing XSLT context components
  • PR #2019: 1776: XSLT template rules for maps and array

2. Technical agenda

2.1. PR #2342: 2341 Canonical JSON serialization

See PR #2342.

2.2. PR #2329: 2327 Rename sequence-join as intersperse

See PR #2329.

2.3. PR #2324 & #2282: bin:infer-encoding / bin:decode-string

See PR #2324 and #2282.

2.4. PR #2313: 2298 XQFO rules: definition of default values

See PR #2313.

2.5. PR #2336: 2334 Revise XSLT pattern syntax and semantics

See PR #2336.

2.6. PR #2323: 2322 Generalize simplified stylesheets

See PR #2323.

2.7. PR #2283: 2276 Relax XSLT rules on Extension Attributes

See PR #2283.

2.8. PR #2274: 407 Function items capturing XSLT context components

See PR #2274.

2.9. PR #2019: 1776: XSLT template rules for maps and array

See PR #2019.

3. Any other business