14:55:18 RRSAgent has joined #xproc 14:55:18 logging to http://www.w3.org/2007/09/06-xproc-irc 14:55:21 Zakim, this will be xproc 14:55:21 ok, Norm; I see XML_PMWG()11:00AM scheduled to start in 5 minutes 14:55:30 PGrosso has joined #xproc 14:55:42 Norm has changed the topic to: XProc WG meets 6 Sep 2007: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/09/06-agenda 14:55:56 Meeting: XML Processing Model WG 14:55:56 Date: 6 September 2007 14:55:56 Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/09/06-agenda 14:55:56 number Meeting: 83, T-minus 8 weeks 14:55:56 Chair: Norm 14:55:57 Scribe: Norm 14:55:59 ScribeNick: Norm 14:57:35 XML_PMWG()11:00AM has now started 14:57:42 +Norm 14:58:55 Zakim, what is the code ? 14:58:55 the conference code is 97762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), MoZ 14:59:36 + +95247aaaa 14:59:48 Zakim, aaaa is me 14:59:48 +MoZ; got it 15:00:22 +[ArborText] 15:00:28 zakim, please call ht-781 15:00:28 ok, ht; the call is being made 15:00:30 +Ht 15:00:52 +Alessandro_Vernet 15:01:14 +??P10 15:01:19 Zakim, who's on the phone? 15:01:19 On the phone I see Norm, MoZ, PGrosso, Ht, Alessandro_Vernet, ??P10 15:01:28 Zakim, P10 is ruilopes 15:01:28 sorry, Norm, I do not recognize a party named 'P10' 15:01:31 Zakim, ??P10 is ruilopes 15:01:31 +ruilopes; got it 15:01:35 tnx 15:04:02 +??P17 15:04:05 Andrew has joined #xproc 15:04:06 richard has joined #xproc 15:04:14 zakim, ? is me 15:04:14 +richard; got it 15:04:19 zakim, please call MSM-Office 15:04:20 ok, MSM; the call is being made 15:04:22 +MSM 15:04:36 Zakim, who's on the phone? 15:04:46 zakim, ? is Andrew 15:04:58 Zakim, who's on the phone? 15:05:04 On the phone I see Norm, MoZ, PGrosso, Ht, Alessandro_Vernet, ruilopes, richard, MSM 15:05:08 sorry, Andrew, I do not recognize a party named '?' 15:05:14 On the phone I see Norm, MoZ, PGrosso, Ht, Alessandro_Vernet, ruilopes, richard, MSM 15:05:16 +??P19 15:05:23 Present: Norm, Mohamed, Paul, Henry, Alessandro, Rui, Richard, Michael, Andrew 15:05:29 Zakim, ??P19 is Andrew 15:05:42 +Andrew; got it 15:05:56 Topic: Accept this agenda? 15:05:56 -> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/09/06-agenda 15:06:19 +Alex_Milows 15:06:27 Accepted. 15:06:34 Present: Norm, Mohamed, Paul, Henry, Alessandro, Rui, Richard, Michael, Andrew, Alex 15:06:43 Topic: Accept minutes from the previous meeting? 15:06:43 -> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/08/30-minutes 15:06:46 Accepted. 15:06:56 -richard 15:06:57 Topic: Next meeting: telcon 13 September 2007 15:07:18 Norm gives regrets. 15:07:20 +??P17 15:07:27 zakim, ? is me 15:07:27 +richard; got it 15:07:43 Topic: Comments on the new draft 15:07:43 -> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/langspec.html 15:07:52 None heard. 15:08:04 Topic: Namespace fixup? 15:08:11 Norm: There's been a thread on this. 15:08:29 Norm: The two positions seem to be: only when you serialize vs. on every step. 15:09:16 Michael: Am I right to assume that the folks who want it only on serialization are proposing a namespace fix-up step? 15:09:25 Michael: Should we add a p:namespace-fixup step? 15:09:37 +Murray_Maloney 15:09:48 Present: Norm, Mohamed, Paul, Henry, Alessandro, Rui, Richard, Michael, Andrew, Alex, Murray 15:10:15 Henry: It's not a deeply technical issue, it's a complex one where people are trying to figure out what users are going to find most useful. 15:10:42 Alex: My proposal wasn't that we have namespace fixup but that we don't do wrong things. Don't create the problems that require namespace fixup. 15:11:38 ...I think the most extreme position is that we do namespace fixup all the time. 15:11:56 ...A more moderate position is to say that the steps in our library don't mangle namespaces. 15:12:09 ...Then there's the "steps can do anything they want" position. 15:12:44 Henry: It would be possible to do option 1, but that would require a lot of analysis. My feeling is that that would be a substantial job of work. 15:12:56 ...Everytime I think I've understood a reasonable subset of what those things are, I've come up with more. 15:13:22 Alex: I'm on the side of saying that we need to make our step library not cause these problems as much as possible. 15:14:32 Henry: I think because it's irritating but true that there's no published description of what namespace fixup means, that we don't have something we can refer to. 15:14:52 -richard 15:15:03 ...Nonetheless, in various toolsets and libraries, there are serialization libraries that do some subset of necessary fixup. 15:15:18 ...It's the fact that those are there and the analysis that we'd need are not that inclines me towards saying, this gets enforced at the margins. 15:15:19 +??P17 15:15:21 -??P17 15:15:26 ...That's why my bias is in that direction. 15:15:34 ...I also think it will make the spec easier to read. 15:15:44 i am being repeatedly disconnected 15:15:53 +??P17 15:15:53 Alex: That means that if you insert an element, there's no requirement to copy the in-scope namespaces. 15:15:57 zakim, ? is me 15:15:57 +richard; got it 15:16:06 ...I think we need to say something about that in at least some case. 15:16:08 s/case/cases/ 15:16:18 ...Then half the battle is won. 15:17:11 Henry: We don't say enough about what we mean when refer to nodes, which we do. The Schema Rec says what infoset properties are required for elements; we haven't said that. 15:17:23 ...We haven't been at all clear about whether the prefix property is one we care about. 15:17:51 ...In-scope namespaces, namespace attributes, we could go down the list. 15:18:08 Alex: I agree we need to say something about that. I think users want prefixes to be preserved. 15:19:05 Henry: Maybe this is a compromise: without being specific, implementations should preserve as much information as possible and produce complete infosets but enforcement is only at the margins. Mention things like prefixes and namespace attributes, etc. 15:19:34 ...The reason we focus on local names and namespace names go without saying is because that's what's necessary for XPath expressions to work. 15:19:58 ...The question of what about the rest of the document, it seems to me, it would be much simpler and allow us to get to L/C, to allow a general health and safety warning at the beginning. 15:20:39 Richard: One possibility would be to define the micro components in terms of trivial XSLT stylesheets because then XSLT has already defined what you have to do with prefixes and how serialization is supposed to work and which things are not allowed. 15:20:46 Alex: Has XSLT really said that much/ 15:21:12 Richard: XSLT has said that applications don't have to use the prefixes. 15:21:37 ...It says that reading what's serialized should produce the same data model except for some obvious cases, like extra namespace nodes. 15:22:06 Alex: XSLT 2.0 is in a nice situation because they got rid of this problem. You must copy the namespace declarations now. 15:22:20 Alex: It's only XSLT 1.0 that has this problem, and our other steps. 15:22:48 -ruilopes 15:22:54 Richard: I was thinking of XSLT 1. 15:23:21 +??P10 15:23:25 Zakim, ? is me 15:23:25 +ruilopes; got it 15:23:35 ...It does give the rule that you have to get the same thing back. 15:23:41 Zakim, who is making noise ? 15:23:45 Henry: But it's model is quite impoverished compared to our own. 15:23:52 MoZ, listening for 10 seconds I heard sound from the following: Norm (19%), richard (41%) 15:24:01 + +1.415.404.aabb 15:24:04 -Alex_Milows 15:24:20 alexmilowski has joined #xproc 15:25:22 Straw poll: Simple binary choice between saying that the spec should gaurantee trivially serializable documents between steps or not? 15:25:40 ...Or should we enfoce that requirement only at serialization time. 15:26:13 ...And that leaves open the question of how we do the former if we do it. We can just state it and leave it up to the implementation, or we can try to do all the analysis necessary. 15:26:30 Zakim, who's on the phone? 15:26:30 On the phone I see Norm, MoZ, PGrosso, Ht, Alessandro_Vernet, MSM, Andrew, Murray_Maloney, richard, ruilopes, +1.415.404.aabb 15:27:13 Alessandro: I'm curious because I can't picture what would be the difference between components doing the fixup or the serializer doing the fixup. Can't we just leave it all to the implementors? 15:27:33 Richard: That will result in different implementations behaving differently. 15:27:47 ...But maybe the only ones that will be different should be considered in error anyway. 15:28:23 Henry: Is there anyone who thinks that we should garauntee our output is w/f XML? 15:28:40 s/who thinks/who doesn't think/ 15:28:50 No. Whew. :-) 15:29:46 Norm: Can you even *tell* if a step doesn't do fixup? 15:30:24 Richard: Suppose that the pipeline generates a stylesheet, then the namespace bindings on those elements are going to be used. If you did fixup that put a namespace binding on one of those elements, then that could change the meaning of the XPath. 15:30:31 Norm: Yeah, alright. 15:30:41 Richard: But it seems to me that that's a bogus program anyway. 15:30:47 ...Why was it doing that? 15:31:58 Henry: What that points towards is something which says "it is implementation-dependent how much is detected by the processor with respect to that kind of issue but this is unlikely to cause significant interoperability problems unless you're doing something dodgy anyway" 15:32:26 Murray: So I've been reading the email and listening and I'm not sure I even understand what XProc is about. Maybe a few simple questions will help. 15:32:37 Murray: If I read in an XML document, there are NS bindings and uses. 15:33:07 ...As I go through various steps, I may be adding and removing things. This could result in missing, new, or conflicting namespace bindings. 15:33:52 Richard: Yes. But you dont' have to be doing anything particuarly bad to do this. Just add a wrapper around an element and that wrapper must have a namespace declaration for whatever prefix you use. 15:34:02 ...And that might conflict with one you've already used. 15:34:39 Straw poll: Should we put a health warning in the spec and ask for priority feedback, rather than trying to nail this ourselves now. 15:35:15 Zakim, who's on the phone? 15:35:15 On the phone I see Norm, MoZ, PGrosso, Ht, Alessandro_Vernet, MSM, Andrew, Murray_Maloney, richard, ruilopes, +1.415.404.aabb 15:36:57 Murray: The results should be not just well formed XML but faithful to the spirit of the author. 15:37:14 Richard: The delete example is a good one. 15:37:45 Norm: I think rename is the culprit here, not delete. Delete deletes the whole subtree. 15:37:56 Michael: Unwrap rather than delete would give you the problem. 15:38:15 Paul: My only concern with the health warning is that we're supposed to go to Last Call with no other issues. 15:38:42 ...We need to make sure that we don't make it sound like an open issue. We need to say this is what we think the answer is and see if that satisfies people. 15:39:05 Murray: In the GRDDL spec we put a health warning in about validation in our Last Call. 15:40:02 Proposal: "Atomic steps which add, delete or change aspects of XML documents may introduce inconsistencies in the relationship between the namespace names of elements and attributes, namespace declarations and in-scope namespace bindings. The extent to which these inconsistencies are detected and repaired on a step by step basis is implementation-defined. Such inconsistencies *must* be repaired on serialization. . . 15:40:06 (a process usually referred to as 'namespace fixup') 15:40:16 Murray: Someone asked whether we expected the final serialization to be well-formed. I alwasy thought that the output of every step would be well formed. 15:40:39 Henry: That's what we're struggling with. 15:41:24 Henry: I should have included 'prefixes' above. 15:41:45 Richard: But we aren't specifying how they must be repaired. 15:41:55 ...What serialization is produced to do the repair? 15:42:43 removing the document can be a repair 15:43:21 Richard: Let's try a concrete example. 15:44:28 ...Suppose unwrapping removes an element with a declaration, what happens to the children. 15:45:08 q+ to point out that HST's interjection appeals to a point not proven or given: once you unwrap the element, DO the descendants still have that ns binding? How could we prove that they do / must / can? 15:45:38 zakim, who is muted? 15:45:38 I see no one muted 15:46:23 Alex: I think we can point to the serialization spec which does have a nice description of this. 15:46:29 ...There's something in there about reconstructed infosets. 15:46:30 q+ and to answer Norm's question: no, as you put the proposition, I don't agree to it. 15:46:41 Richard: I believe that we have to have something that addresses this. 15:47:19 ...If the element you removed in unwrap had text children, they really will lose that namespace. 15:48:13 without adding too much complexity to the problem, I want to add the concern about the fact that with p:string-replace, I can replace a string with characters that are not allowed in XML 1.0 but are in XML 1.1 () 15:48:16 Henry: I'm perfectly happy in this regard to point to the serialization spec for guidance. 15:48:49 q- 15:49:44 Murray: Here's my thought. We put minimal text in the specification and we edit the description of the serialization step so that it spells this out in a little more detail and we point to a separate document to detail all of this. 15:50:16 Norm: That won't work on process grounds 15:51:15 Please not only namespace 15:51:32 Henry: Straw poll: Ask the editor to add a health warning about namespaces with references to the serialziation spec and leave it at that. 15:51:47 Richard: The effect with respect the email discussion si the question, is it ok to leave it until serialization? 15:51:52 Zakim, who's on the phone? 15:51:52 On the phone I see Norm, MoZ, PGrosso, Ht, Alessandro_Vernet, MSM, Andrew, Murray_Maloney, richard, ruilopes, alexmilowski 15:52:22 Henry: This health warning would encourage implementors to do their best step by step. 15:52:27 Paul: I'm happy with that. 15:53:21 Mohamed: I think it must also include warnings about XML 1.0 vs. XML 1.1. 15:53:26 Alex: I don't like the health warning. 15:53:46 Paul: I'd still like to go to last call, unless you think we still have an open issue. 15:53:53 Micheal: This sounds like an open issue to me. 15:54:00 ...I can't support that resolution. 15:54:31 Norm: With my chair's hat on, I cannot in good conscience claim there isn't an issue here. 15:54:43 Topic: Rename p:equal to p:compare? 15:54:57 Accepted. 15:55:08 Topic: Semantics of p:label-elements 15:55:44 Norm: It's been suggested that we should use sequential numbers and not check for duplicates. 15:56:17 Henry: If I add an xml:id and a subsequent step already has it, so I think the duplicate detection is a complete red herring and gets in the way of using this for scoped identifiers. 15:56:34 Norm: Any object to removing duplicate detection? 15:56:43 Accepted. 15:57:49 Murray: Let's leave it implementation defined. 15:58:09 Richard: I disagree strongly; the generate-id() in XSLT has that behavior and its a constant source of irritation. 15:58:25 Richard: It should be defined exactly what the IDs are. 15:58:42 Henry: Regression tests have the same problem. 15:58:55 Alex: Sequential numbering is the suggestion? I'm ok. 15:59:12 Norm: Any object to sequential numbering instead of implementation-defined? 15:59:30 what is the relevant total ordering here? 15:59:36 Mohamed: Can we make it an option to make it random? 16:00:43 Alex: We could add a radix? 16:00:59 Murray: Why not just make it an option to support sequential numbering, but you can implement other schemes if you want. 16:01:39 -Norm 16:01:40 -Ht 16:01:40 -PGrosso 16:01:41 -Murray_Maloney 16:01:42 -ruilopes 16:01:42 Adjourned. 16:01:43 -richard 16:01:43 -Andrew 16:01:44 -MoZ 16:01:46 -alexmilowski 16:01:48 -Alessandro_Vernet 16:01:51 RRSAgent, set logs world visible 16:01:51 I'm logging. I don't understand 'set logs world visible', Norm. Try /msg RRSAgent help 16:01:51 alexmilowski has left #xproc 16:01:52 -MSM 16:01:54 XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended 16:01:55 Attendees were Norm, +95247aaaa, MoZ, PGrosso, Ht, Alessandro_Vernet, ruilopes, richard, MSM, Andrew, Alex_Milows, Murray_Maloney, +1.415.404.aabb, alexmilowski 16:01:58 RRSAgent, set logs world-visible 16:02:43 RRSAgent, draft minutes 16:02:43 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2007/09/06-xproc-minutes.html Norm 16:03:30 PGrosso has left #xproc 16:07:07 MoZ has joined #xproc 16:51:05 Norm_ has joined #xproc 18:18:51 Zakim has left #xproc 18:19:04 RRSAgent, bye 18:19:04 I see no action items