IRC log of xproc on 2006-06-22

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Meeting: XML Processing model telcon
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Chair: Henry S Thompson
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Scribe: Henry S Thompson
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ScribeNick: ht
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Topic: Attendance
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+Alex_Milowski
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zakim, please call ht781
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I am sorry, ht; I do not know a number for ht781
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zakim, please call ht-781
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ok, ht; the call is being made
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+Ht
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+Murray_Maloney
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+[IPcaller]
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Zakim, [IP is Alessandro
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+Alessandro; got it
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+??P30
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zakim, ? is richard
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+richard; got it
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zakim, who is on the call?
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On the phone I see MoZ, Alex_Milowski, Ht, Murray_Maloney, Alessandro, richard
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xproc
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97762
15:05:07 [rlopes]
yes, but the bridge is stating "invalid pass"
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Zakim, what is the code ?
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the conference code is 97762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200), MoZ
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do the # thing to get amy then, don't waste time. . .
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ok
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zakim, who is on the call?
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On the phone I see MoZ, Alex_Milowski, Ht, Murray_Maloney, Alessandro, richard
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+[IPcaller]
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zakim, +[ is rlopes
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sorry, ht, I do not recognize a party named '+['
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Zakim, [IP is Rui
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+Rui; got it
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zakim, who is on the call?
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On the phone I see MoZ, Alex_Milowski, Ht, Murray_Maloney, Alessandro, richard, Rui
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Topic: Agenda
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Accepted
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Topic: Minutes of 2006-06-15
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No comment, silence gives consent, accepted.
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Topic: Call next week
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MM regrets for 29 June and 6 July
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RT regrets for 6 and 13 July
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Topic: F2F 2--4 August
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Accommodation is going fast, if you're not booked, do so ASAP!
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MM: Rocklin Inn is closest to the meeting venue at MM's
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... Estimating 9 participants
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Topic: Review of open action items
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No progress on any of the open items
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Topic: Syntax of the pipeline language
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2006May/0087.html
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HST: Three levels for names:
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1) The pipeline itself ;
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2) Components may declare required parameters
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3) Authors may need variables to park things in
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AM's email directly addresses (3)
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HST: Does AM's proposal also address (2)?
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RT: 4th category has been discussed -- XSLT parameters -- not required by component or pipeline, but used in a particular stylesheet, for example
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q+
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HST: Yes, that's a separate use case, and AM's mechanism addresses it
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MM: Late binding on the table? E.g. bind 'foo' to date, at pipeline invocation or only as referenced
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AM: Been discussed. . .dynamic binding at a particular point, but not re-evaluated thereafter
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... but lazy values not as such
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for me only functions can give different results
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RT: User needs to do that explicitly, with e.g. a small component which produces the current date/time in an small XML document
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date() for date and current() for current node for example
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AM: I think we agreed no iteration of a 'while (condition) ...' variety for v1, so, no
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ack alex
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AM: My email, and HST's simple pipeline -- let+params+vars makes simple progress from that
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RT: While working on conditional for my simple syntax proposal, same problems come up
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q+ to put two kinds of 'values' on the table
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AM: This topic actually involves the larger question of flow vs. sequence semantics. . .
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... If there's a primary input, my proposal works as written
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... If that can't be assumed, then things get more complicated
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ack ht
15:24:02 [Zakim]
ht, you wanted to put two kinds of 'values' on the table
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2006Jun/0029.html
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HST: Two kinds of named values: constants, or simple values pulled via XPath from documents on the one hand, and (sequences of) infosets on the other
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... Should these both use the same kind of binding mechanism? They don't in the sum of the proposals on the table at the moment
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RT: The first thing to note about this example, somewhat irritatingly, is that the conditional itself has to declare a name for its output
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... Assumes as have others that default context for XPaths is the primary input
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... A bit verbose as it stands, but if we allow the default rule that w/o an explicit input, you get the primary output of the previous step, etc.
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... So here we have a name being 'bound' by the conditional -- e.g. the 'result' of the conditional
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... So last week we observed that we have components defining names, and steps binding those names
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... But pipelines themselves do both
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... Conditional is similar -- it both names the output _and_ binds something to it in each branch
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... Perhaps we should separate out the idea of scopes within which names exist, and binding of values to names
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AM: Several issues -- two-part names, or full hierarchical
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... We could go all the way to a path-like name which lets you address any step by navigating to it, or we could just use the ordinary ID/IDREF story
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... What I don't like is having to use paths for names depending on what the pipeline looks like
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q+
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RT: Well, I didn't want to have to make up names for every output of every step
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HST, RT: Steps are instances of components
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... The XSLT _component_ has a 'member' called 'stylesheet'
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... So every XSLT _step_ gives us a name [step-name].stylesheet, for the stylesheet for the named step
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HST: It's always only a two-part name, never a richer path. . .
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AM: I think of steps using components, which doesn't seem to be consistent with what you have above, but that's actually a distraction at this point
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... I also don't like the '.' separator
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... Worried that once we start including pipelines inside pipelines, etc., we'll need a general reference mechanism
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RT: Don't think we should allow that -- if you want to get at an input or output of a sub-pipe, the sub-pipe itself has to expose that at the sub-pipe surface
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AM: You're missing the lesson from XML Schema -- you need to be able to refer to every part of the complex structure, for example for debugging, documenting, labelling intermediate results, etc.
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RT: I see what you're saying, so yes, the naming approach I've proposed could generalize to pipe.step.port, etc.
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... There's some potential for confusion between step names and port names, in that case . . .
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AM: I also want names for inputs, even if the pipeline _language_ doesn't need them
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RT: Yes, again, can do, as long as we're careful wrt namespaces
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AM: So we need to step back and generalize -- carefully consider what we want to be able to name, in general
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... and build it in from the beginning
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RT: Indeed, and that's an argument for scoped names, and against ID/IDREF, otherwise composition might produce conflict
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MM: Multiple dots?
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RT: Only one in the language itself, but multiple for addressing 'from outside' as it were
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MM: Public vs. private? You're proposing inputs and outputs are public, what about variable?
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RT: In the language, as I'm proposing, only outputs are 'public' in that sense
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AM: I agree with MM, referring to vars and params still need ways to point to them, so you can ask about them
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MM: [book example which the scribe didn't catch -- please put in email!]
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RT: You seem to be adding dependency on values, as well as documents
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q+ to say blackboard
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q+
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MM: ... I'm going to record something in a set of variables, each with a different, but related, name, one per chapter
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ack ht
15:58:00 [Zakim]
ht, you wanted to say blackboard
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ack alex
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MM has responded to RT's component example by email, please have a look
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-Murray_Maloney
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-Alessandro
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-richard
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-Rui
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-MoZ
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16:00:24 [ht]
rrsagent, make logs world-visible
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rrsagent, produce minutes
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I'm logging. I don't understand 'produce minutes', ht. Try /msg RRSAgent help
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rrsagent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2006/06/22-xproc-minutes.html ht
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disconnecting the lone participant, Ht, in XML_PMWG()11:00AM
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were MoZ, Alex_Milowski, Ht, Murray_Maloney, [IPcaller], Alessandro, richard, Rui
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MoZ, only one 'm' in Mohamed ?
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for your name?
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or is the w3c database wrong?
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