IRC log of xproc on 2006-05-25

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Meeting: XML Processing Model WG
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Scribe: Norm
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ScribeNick: Norm
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Date: 25 May 2006
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Chair: Norm
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/05/25-agenda.html
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has now started
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+moz
14:51:20 [Norm]
Uhm, it's xx:51, is it not?
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You're a bit early :-)
14:51:38 [MoZ]
yep ;)
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Ok
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+Alessandro_Vernet
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+[ArborText]
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+Norm
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+??P9
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zakim, ? is richard
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+richard; got it
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zakim, please call ht-781
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ok, ht; the call is being made
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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+Ht
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On the phone I see moz, Alessandro_Vernet, PGrosso, Norm, richard, Ht (muted)
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rrsagent, pointer?
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See http://www.w3.org/2006/05/25-xproc-irc#T15-03-02
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rrsagent, make log world visible
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I'm logging. I don't understand 'make log world visible', Norm. Try /msg RRSAgent help
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rrsagent, set logs world visible
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I'm logging. I don't understand 'set logs world visible', Norm. Try /msg RRSAgent help
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rrsagent, set logs world-visible
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+??P0
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zakim, ??P0 is Andrew
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+Andrew; got it
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Present: Norm, Mohamed, Alessandro, Paul, Richard, Henry, Andrew
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Regrets: Michael, Rui
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+Alex_Milowski
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Topic: Accept this agenda?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/05/25-agenda.html
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Present: Norm, Mohamed, Alessandro, Paul, Richard, Henry, Andrew, Alex
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Accepted.
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Topic: Accept minutes from the previous teleconference?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/05/18-minutes.html
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Accepted.
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Topic: Next meeting: 1 June telcon
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Any regrets?
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None given.
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Topic: Face-to-face: 2-4 Aug 2006.
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-> http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/38398/XProcFTF2/
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/08/02-04-f2f.html
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Topic: Mini "Technical Plenary" in January?
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Norm proposes that we don't need to meet in January since we will have met in August.
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We'll revisit if it actually happens, it's still just in the planning stages today.
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Topic: Review of open action items
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1. A-13-01: MSM to draft a complete table; ETA: 15 June 2006
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Continued.
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Topic: XProc syntax
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Email threads:
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-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2006May/0087.html
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-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2006May/0072.html
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-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2006May/0041.html
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-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2006May/0039.html
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Norm opens the floor for discussion.
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Alex: Can you provide a synopis?
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Norm mumbles a bit
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We seem to be reaching consensus on the non-directed syntax as our first WD syntax
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Henry: You mean the generic syntax, right? Names like p:process and p:input and p:output.
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Yes.
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Variables/parameters/inputs/outputs share a single symbol space
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Parameters are strings
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References in one direction, which Norm describes badly
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Richard: I'd been thinking that outputs defined labels and input referred to them
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Some discussion, poorly recorded by the hapless scribe
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The outstanding issue is XPath references to input documents
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Can an XPath expression refer to multiple in-scope input documents? Or only to a single document.
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Alessandro: We also seem to have consensus on p:input/p:with-input, etc.
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Richard: If all the inputs are available as documents that you can refer to by name in XPath expressions, this results in a hidden dependency within XPaths.
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...In order to determine which components have to have been evaulated, you have to peek into the XPath to see what inputs it relies on.
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...That seems to be a minor implementation annoyance but a good way of hiding dependencies.
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...which is a bad thing.
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...It means that two things in apparently unrelated branches of the pipeline may have to wait for each other because of the XPath expression one uses.
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...It really is just a syntax issue on one level in that you could draw all the lines in explicitly. It's just that it's burried deep down in the syntax.
15:26:04 [MoZ]
could we uses a "uses=" attributes
15:26:52 [Norm]
Alex: Are we assuming that the variables and parameters share the same symbol space.
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Alex: If they share the same symbol space, then there are conversion issues. What happens if you attempt to select a node from a string?
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Richard: I think the issue of strings is a red herring. Though I agree that we should restrict them to strings now, that doesn't mean we can't make them more complex in the future.
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Richard: If the functionality that's needed is the ability to refer to multiple documents, it could be done more explicitly. There could be a syntax that bound variables to the names of outputs of other steps. That at least would make it expicit which ones were being used.
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Mohamed: The idea (uses= from before) is to make it explicit. If they are defined on other points in the document, then maybe they are not visually explicit even if they're technically explicit.
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Alex: In XSLT, variables and parameters can be bound to a variety of things and that's useful. The typing issues come into play. I might want to bind inputs to parameters, for example.
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Norm: That comes back to the point earlier about parameters being strings.
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Richard: I agree that it would be nice to go beyond strings for parameters, but we can stick with strings for now.
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Alex: Do we need this distinction of variables and parameters?
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Richard: I don't think we've agreed that there are any variables yet.
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Alex describes his p:let proposal
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Richard: Is this different in any way from a sub-pipeline?
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Alex: No, not really. The distinction between variables and parameters seems just not useful to me.
15:39:08 [Norm]
Alex: You need to be able to manipulate parameters just like you can manipulate inputs and outputs in the pipeline
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Alex: Let provides a scope
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Alex: Let is also hierarchical, it has inputs and outputs.
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Richard: It seems to me that the advantage isn't the scoping as such, put a place to do some calculation on some existing parameters to get a new one.
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Alex: If you're calculating a parameter with an input, you need to know what its dependent on.
15:44:51 [MoZ]
for me let is a class definition
15:45:42 [Norm]
Alex: I'm quite happy if it can be done as a sub-pipeline, but I don't want to have to call out to some other file.
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Norm: I don't think we've discussed that at all.
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Alex: This could easily be some variation of a sub-pipeline call.
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Richard: In lisp, let is implemented as a macro. It expands into a lambda that's passed some parameters.
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...We've been saying that a let in our pipeline might be equivalent to a sub-pipeline and provides a place to bind some new input parameters.
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...It would be nice if this were really true and if you could say that let was equivalent to this pipeline construct.
15:49:41 [MoZ]
+1 for using few keywords in Xproc (for p:let to become a p:subpipeline or rich-subpipeline)
15:49:48 [Norm]
Richard: I hadn't imagined that sub-pipelines would be transparent, so let would bind to a sub-pipeline with the right declarations for inputs and outputs.
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Norm: I see.
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Norm: Let's try to come back around to XPaths over input documents.
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Norm: I have reservations about the refer-to-inputs-as-variables style and Richard has given some good technical reasons why it makes analysis harder. Does anyone want to argue in favor of it?
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No one speaks.
15:53:00 [MoZ]
using namespaces "io:foo" and "p:foo"
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will this be a solution ?
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Alex: What if we had parameter bindings as children of the p:input?
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ACTION: Norm to record the open issue about what an XPath expression over a document sequence means
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Proposal: XPath expressions will be evaluated over exactly one document, syntactic details unresolved.
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s/document/input/
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Alessandro: I think it's hard to record a consensus on that because Jeni isn't here.
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...Personally, this is what we've implemented, so I kind of like XPath expressions evaluated over a single document.
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Norm: I'll postpone the question for a week.
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Norm expresses a desire to have a completed first WD before the f2f.
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Topic: Any other business?
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None.
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Adjourned.
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-Alessandro_Vernet
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-richard
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-Norm
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-Alex_Milowski
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-PGrosso
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-moz
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-Andrew
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-Ht
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were moz, Alessandro_Vernet, PGrosso, Norm, richard, Ht, Andrew, Alex_Milowski
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rrsagent, please draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2006/05/25-xproc-minutes.html Norm
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Zakim, bye
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16:20:27 [Norm]
Huh? I do
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!!
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just saw please draft minutes...
16:21:21 [Norm]
What can't you read?
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s/read/access/
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That just means make "draft" minutes as opposed to "final, approved" minutes
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You can access http://www.w3.org/2006/05/25-xproc-minutes.html
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But note that the official minutes will appear at http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/05/25-minutes.html in a little bit
16:22:31 [MoZ]
sorry didn't try to read anything just was wondering that you usually call "please draft minutes", then "make then world wide visible"
16:25:19 [Norm]
Oh, sorry.
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I made them world-visible a lot earlier in the call
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Because I had IRC problems and wanted to look at the raw log to see if my attempt to setup the title, chair, scribe, etc. had gone through
16:26:27 [MoZ]
oh yeh I see it now
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