POWDER Working Group Blog

The group had a quick discussion about the current state of play which is as follows:

1. XSLT for POWDER-BASE to POWDER - coming along nicely. The basics are done, with a manageable To Do list (ordered lists, tagsets, conflicting descriptions, predefined descriptions). This is an important implementation of the formal doc.
2. The Semantic POWDER processor is done, complete with tarball and help page at http://transonto.sourceforge.net/
3. The second POWDER Processor is expected to be online any day now.
4. The comments received from Michael Schneider and Jonathan Rees need (and will get) a proper answer but the result is that we do not need to substantially change the semantic extension.
5. Tony Hammond's point about the '//' in IRIs being mandatory when they should be optional in the regular expressions is not right as POWDER$ is about HTTP and HTTP-like URI schemes. Other URI schemes can be handled by POWDER but by extending POWDER-BASE.
6. Minor editorial issues are being dealt with.
7. The registration of the Media Types and @rel type is progressing but it's taking quite a lot of effort.
8. The group is fully on track to get ready for a request for a PR transition before Christmas although we may just mis the moratorium. A lot depends, particularly, on whether the XSLT work gets caught by any banana skins along the way.

We're getting there.