14:53:07 RRSAgent has joined #xproc 14:53:07 logging to http://www.w3.org/2007/03/15-xproc-irc 14:53:11 zakim, this will be xproc 14:53:11 ok, Norm; I see XML_PMWG()11:00AM scheduled to start in 7 minutes 14:53:44 Meeting: XML Processing Model WG 14:53:44 Date: 15 Mar 2007 14:53:44 Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/03/15-agenda.html 14:53:44 Meeting number: 59, T-minus 33 weeks 14:53:44 Chair: Norm 14:53:46 Scribe: Norm 14:53:47 ScribeNick: Norm 14:53:49 rrsagent, set logs world-visible 14:56:14 rlopes has joined #xproc 15:00:12 Alessandro has joined #xproc 15:00:27 zakim, please call MSM-Office 15:00:27 ok, MSM; the call is being made 15:00:28 XML_PMWG()11:00AM has now started 15:00:30 +MSM 15:01:14 heh 15:01:35 +[ArborText] 15:01:36 PGrosso has joined #xproc 15:01:44 +Norm 15:01:51 +[IPcaller] 15:01:53 zakim, [ is Alessandro 15:01:55 Zakim, what is the code ? 15:01:57 +[IPcaller.a] 15:02:01 sorry, Alessandro, I do not recognize a party named '[' 15:02:04 Zakim, [IPCaller.a is me 15:02:07 the conference code is 97762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), MoZ 15:02:13 +rlopes; got it 15:02:25 +MoZ 15:02:30 zakim, [IPCaller] is Alessandro 15:02:37 +Alessandro; got it 15:03:08 zakim, who's on the phone? 15:03:08 On the phone I see MSM, PGrosso, Norm, Alessandro, rlopes, MoZ 15:04:24 zakim, please call ht-781 15:04:24 ok, ht; the call is being made 15:04:26 +Ht 15:04:43 +Alex_Milows 15:04:49 richard has joined #xproc 15:05:00 +??P0 15:05:01 AndrewF has joined #xproc 15:05:05 zakim, ? is me 15:05:05 +richard; got it 15:05:38 zakim, who's on the phone? 15:05:38 On the phone I see MSM, PGrosso, Norm, Alessandro, rlopes, MoZ, Ht, Alex_Milows, richard 15:05:54 +??P13 15:06:01 zakim, ? is AndrewF 15:06:01 +AndrewF; got it 15:06:18 zakim, who's on the phone? 15:06:18 On the phone I see MSM, PGrosso, Norm, Alessandro, rlopes, MoZ, Ht, Alex_Milows, richard, AndrewF 15:06:34 Present: Michael, Paul, Norm, Alessandro, Rui, Mohamed, Henry, Alex, Richard, Andrew 15:06:46 Regrets: Murray 15:07:00 Topic: Accept this agenda? 15:07:00 -> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/03/15-agenda.html 15:07:05 Accepted. 15:07:13 Topic: Accept minutes from the previous meeting? 15:07:13 -> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/03/08-minutes.html 15:07:15 Accepted. 15:07:45 Topic: Next meeting: telcon 22 Mar 2007 15:07:49 Regrets from Mohamed 15:08:05 Topic: Review of the 28 Feb 2007 Editor's draft 15:08:22 -> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/ED-xproc-20070228/ 15:08:32 -> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/langspec.html#input-output 15:10:09 Zakim, who is making noise ? 15:10:19 MoZ, listening for 10 seconds I heard sound from the following: Alex_Milows (50%), Norm (48%) 15:10:21 Alex: I'm concerned about parameters being available. We have in-scope parameters and importing parameters and no concept of the delta. 15:11:29 Norm revisits the rationale. 15:12:06 -MSM 15:13:27 Alex suffers telecommunications issues and postpones his discussion 15:13:30 zakim, mute alex 15:13:30 Alex_Milows should now be muted 15:13:51 Henry: I've been working on DTDs and Schemas and so I've found lots of details. 15:14:35 Henry: I'm still concerned about the question of step naming. It's irritating that because pipelines may have QNames for names that the pipe element has to have a QName rather than an NCName for its step attribute. 15:14:48 ...The 99.999% case will be than an NCName will do. 15:15:11 ...And there can never be more than one pipeline in scope. 15:16:15 Norm wonders why it matters more to Henry than XSLT template names or modes. 15:16:43 Henry: Because they were invented at the same time as XSLT. XSLT got to say that the interpretation of QNames was different for mode and template names. 15:17:04 Henry: So at the very least, it seems like calling the QNames but having them follow the old XSLT rules not the Schema rules is a little bit unhelpful. 15:17:25 ...Especially since it's a corner case of the extreme sort. I'm not going to lie down in the road, but it seems tacky. 15:17:33 ...At the very least, more prose is needed in 5.7 15:18:17 Norm: Let's explore a little bit. 15:18:30 Henry: The schema union type of NCName|QName does admit to the right semantics and syntax. 15:20:02 Some discussion of the alternatives 15:20:20 Henry: What if we said that pipelines like all other steps were named with NCNames. 15:20:28 ...And pipeline libraries had a namespace. 15:20:57 ...Then you could refer to a pipeline from the outside with a QName but with an NCName from inside. 15:21:20 ...The only substantive change is that it requires all the pipelines defined in a library to be in the same namespace. 15:21:56 Norm: Uhm, it seems a little arbitrary, but it does solve the problem. 15:22:21 Henry: It does seem every so slightly odd to define pipelines in different namespaces in the same library. 15:23:06 Norm: Does anyone else have a feeling about this proposal? 15:23:08 unmute alex 15:23:13 zakim, unmute alex 15:23:13 Alex_Milows should no longer be muted 15:23:43 zakim, mute alex 15:23:43 Alex_Milows should now be muted 15:24:04 zakim, who's on the phone? 15:24:04 On the phone I see PGrosso, Norm, Alessandro, rlopes, MoZ, Ht, Alex_Milows (muted), richard, AndrewF 15:24:08 MSM, we lost you 15:24:55 -Alex_Milows 15:25:12 Proposal: We'll try Henry's proposal: Names of steps are NCNames, pipeline-libraries have a target namespace, all pipelines in that library are in that namespace. Therefore, you can refer to them by QName from outside and NCName from inside. 15:25:31 Accepted. 15:25:36 zakim, please call MSM-Office 15:25:36 ok, MSM; the call is being made 15:25:37 +MSM 15:26:16 +Alex_Milows 15:26:29 zakim, mute alex 15:26:29 Alex_Milows should now be muted 15:26:30 zakim, mute Alex 15:26:31 Alex_Milows was already muted, ht 15:27:06 Michael: I've been struggle to keep up in the technical discussion, but not necessarily succeeding very well. 15:27:16 Michael: I've exploited that fact by reading them as a sort of stranger. 15:27:46 ...The biggest question I have when I read the spec is why are we doing this two-level specification where we have an abstraction and an XML syntax. 15:28:11 ...To do that, you need a coherent story about how these two abstractions map to each other. 15:28:42 ...As far as I can tell, if you try to read the document solely at the abstraction level, we don't say nearly enough. 15:29:16 ...You don't say how our abstractions relate to each other, which ones are legal or not, how they're different from blocks of wood. 15:29:33 ...In fact, we rely on the XML syntax for many of these things. 15:29:52 Michael: It would be better to just treat all the extra stuff you need as additional information associated with XML elements. 15:30:30 ...I think we thought it was a good idea at the time, but it has turned out not to be. Doing it well would be too expensive. 15:31:52 Norm agrees wholeheartedly. 15:32:02 -Alex_Milows 15:32:12 Richard: I don't agree. The conceptual sections may not have had anything about the ordering of steps. But it could have done. 15:32:49 q+ ht 15:32:53 Norm: Indeed, it could have been done that way, but it would be a lot of work. Are you in favor of improving the conceptual model. 15:32:56 ack ht 15:33:34 [They could indeed have done. But when you look at the abstraction level as a thing in itself, the question becomes "why are they doing it this way?" And imposing an order for the purpose of calculating defaults seems like an unmotivated design feature.] 15:33:40 Henry: It won't surprise you to know that I have a residual preference for keeping the conceptual model separate, but I also don't think that as thing stand the difference is doing enough work to justify arguing against the editor. 15:34:10 Henry: Looking at XSLT 1.0 as a model, it quite cheerfully talks about templates and template rules independent of the elements, but it doesn't make a big deal about the differenc.e 15:34:23 ...I think it's easier to read because it doesn't attempt to go as far as Michael suggests. 15:34:47 [? I think XSLT speaks about templates only in ways compatible with the statement "a template is an XML element"] 15:34:52 +Alex_Milows 15:34:57 ...I think it would be confusing to try to talk about only the elements. 15:36:14 Michael: Two things: One, the way of talking about things that XSLT 1.0 uses seems about right. With that, I'm in full agreement. But second, Henry believes they're talking about things that are different than the XML elements and I don't think that's the case. 15:36:43 ...Perhaps I could be persuaded to believe that XSLT 1.0 postulates a level of abstraction distinct from the elements, but I don't think it does. 15:36:49 alexmilowski has joined #xproc 15:37:04 BTW, I absolutely 110% disagree with Henry's proposal. 15:37:09 Stupid cell phone... 15:38:07 Micheal: You don't need to make a big thing of it, and I think the easiest way to do that is to say that it's an element, just like a "for" loop in C is a sequence of characters. 15:39:01 ...There are lots of unanswered questions in the abstraction that are trivially answered by the XML syntax. 15:40:03 HST would rather be silent on the relationship, but I'm happy to be ruled by what the editor finds congenial and/or we find out what XSLT actually does in this regard 15:40:20 Norm: I don't hear anyone objecting to the editor attempting to merge the two sections. 15:41:09 Richard: "A template rule is specified with the xsl:template element..." In fact, they have three different things: they have the template rule, the xsl:template, and the template itself. 15:41:15 ...There's something abstract here. 15:42:09 No objections. The Editor will try. 15:42:46 Norm: Alex, would you like to revisit the QName/NCName step issue. 15:43:19 Alex: A p:import can import a single pipeline that isn't in a library. 15:43:34 AndrewF has joined #xproc 15:43:36 ...That's a feature that we'd lose if we did this change. 15:43:49 Norm: Indeed, that is the case. 15:44:43 Alex: I think QNames are really simple. 15:44:59 Norm recounts Henry's objection vis-a-vis interpretation of unprefixed names. 15:45:11 Alex: Yes, but some people think that Schema got that wrong. 15:45:41 MSM: Does the definition of QName specify where the namespace bindings come from? I don't think it does. 15:46:02 ...My instincts tend to be with Henry here, but I want to understand the technical issue. 15:46:51 ...The Namespace spec says that the way that unqualified element and attribute names are resolved is different. XSLT 1.0 goes further. And XSLT 2.0 goes even further with respect to funcction names. 15:47:14 ...I think we could say that interpreting step names it works this way, and I don't think that's incompatible with the way that QName is defined. 15:47:26 ...And we could write a last call comment on the datatypes spec if we do find that. 15:47:40 ...And if it isn't clear, we could comment on that too. 15:48:42 Henry: With respect to the datatypes spec, I think it is clear that the in-scope namespaces in the infoset is referred to. 15:49:25 ...I think it's very clear that it is an error to have an unqualified name of type QName in an instance document if there's no binding for the default namespace. 15:49:45 ...We can certainly write our own rules. It's the fact that 99.999% of the time NCNames are all that's needed. 15:50:14 ...I'm not at all clear that the case Alex mentioned should be enough to change our position. 15:50:15 [W.r.t writing our own rules - I think the point of disagreement here may be just whether doing so means we ought not to use the QName type, or must use a union of NCName and QName.] 15:50:44 There's no way to predict if importing pipelines or pipeline-libraries will be more common. 15:51:53 Henry: I still like the resolution above and what it amounts to when importing single pipelines is that you risk a name conflict. 15:52:39 Norm: We did resolve this. Is there anyone that on the basis of Alex's observations wishes we'd resolved it differently? 15:52:42 No one heard. 15:53:36 Norm: Has anyone looked at the draft that includes options? 15:53:51 Henry: Yes, a while ago. It looks good on the face of it, but I haven't looked at it line-by-line. 15:54:16 Mohamed: I looked at ti. 15:54:19 s/at ti/at it/ 15:54:39 ...I found the way that it's explained reflects the discussion, so I think we should keep it. 15:55:03 Norm: Anyone want to reject the options draft as the status quo. 15:55:09 Accepted. 15:55:53 Norm: Did anyone see anything in the 28 Feb draft that they'd object to seeing in the next public draft. 15:56:14 Mohamed: I'm concerned about the consistency of viewport-source, iteration-source, and xpath-source. 15:56:25 ...I don't find the explanation about why some are one way and some are not very clear. 15:57:11 ...I think sequences are just not very clear at a deep level. 15:57:12 [Checking the current Datatypes spec diff w/1.0, I don't see any mention of [in-scope namespaces] in the section on QName. There's a note that says that the mapping requires a namespace declaration to be in scope for the mapping to work, but that doesn't seem to determine the treatement of unqualified names. (It appears to contradict the normal assumption that if there is no default ns declaration, the QName mapping is well defined.)] 15:57:55 Norm: I'll publish a new draft this week that I'd like to vote on for making public at the next telcon. 15:58:01 [That seems more consistent with XSLT vs XQuery ] 15:58:35 Norm: So next week, I'll see if anyone has any show-stoppers and then we'll look at the component list. 15:58:54 No one objects to that plan. 15:59:10 Topic: Any other business? 15:59:31 Henry: I would like to see the various schemas appearing in the draft. 16:00:09 Michael, you are right, and I was wrong -- only Schema Representation Constraint: QName Interpretation in Part 1 is unequivocal, and _it_ as written only applies to attrs of type QName (not elts), and _could_ be claimed to only apply to attrs in schema docs 16:00:33 Ok. 16:00:53 -Alex_Milows 16:00:54 -Norm 16:00:55 -PGrosso 16:00:57 -AndrewF 16:01:00 -Alessandro 16:01:01 -rlopes 16:01:03 -Ht 16:01:06 -richard 16:01:07 -MoZ 16:01:08 -MSM 16:01:09 alexmilowski has left #xproc 16:01:10 XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended 16:01:11 Attendees were MSM, PGrosso, Norm, rlopes, MoZ, Alessandro, Ht, Alex_Milows, richard, AndrewF 16:01:18 rrsagent, please draft minutes 16:01:18 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2007/03/15-xproc-minutes.html Norm 16:01:36 rrsagent, please make logs world-visible 16:01:41 rrsagent, please draft minutes 16:01:41 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2007/03/15-xproc-minutes.html Norm 16:01:52 :-) 16:02:02 rrsagent, bye 16:02:02 I see no action items