IRC log of xproc on 2008-10-02

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14:58:46 [Norm]
Meeting: XML Processing Model WG
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Date: 2 Oct 2008
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/10/02-agenda
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Meeting: 127
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Chair: Norm
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Scribe: Norm
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ScribeNick: Norm
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Regrets: Henry, Mohamed, Michael
14:59:16 [Norm]
Regrets are wrong
15:01:31 [PGrosso]
Zakim, this is XML_P
15:01:31 [Zakim]
ok, PGrosso; that matches XML_PMWG()11:00AM
15:01:36 [Norm]
thanks, paul
15:01:42 [Norm]
I'll be there in a few minutes. I have to take another short call, less than 10min. Amuse yourself by reading the open issues list in my absence :-)
15:01:50 [ruilopes]
Zakim, ??P1 is me
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+ruilopes; got it
15:01:55 [MoZ]
Zakim, what is the code ?
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the conference code is 97762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), MoZ
15:02:55 [ht]
zakim, please call ht-781
15:02:55 [Zakim]
ok, ht; the call is being made
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+Ht
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+??P41
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s/Regrets: Henry, Mohamed, Michael/
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s/Regrets: Henry, Mohamed, Michael//
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zakim, ? is Richard
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+Richard; got it
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zakim, ? is me
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sorry, richard, I do not recognize a party named '?'
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zakim, richard is me
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+richard; got it
15:04:29 [ht]
Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/09/25-minutes.html
15:04:43 [Norm]
Norm has changed the topic to: XProc WG meets today, http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/10/02-agenda
15:04:47 [ht]
Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/10/02-agenda.html
15:05:05 [ht]
zakim, who is on the call?
15:05:06 [Zakim]
On the phone I see ruilopes, PGrosso, Ht, richard
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15:06:01 [Norm]
ok. i'm peddling as fast as I can
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Next meeting: 9 October, no regrets noted
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+Andrew
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Minutes accepted as posted
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Topic: Namespace binding examples
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http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/langspec.html#opt-param-bindings
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Mohamed, are you joining us?
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MoZ?
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+ +1.646.378.aaaa
15:09:09 [Norm]
Zakim, who's on the phone?
15:09:09 [Zakim]
On the phone I see ruilopes, PGrosso, Ht, richard, Andrew, +1.646.378.aaaa
15:09:22 [Norm]
Present: Rui, Paul, Henry, Richard, Andrew, Norm
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Zakim, aaaa is norm
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+norm; got it
15:09:45 [MoZ]
Zakim, what is the code ?
15:09:45 [Zakim]
the conference code is 97762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), MoZ
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+ +95247aabb
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Zakim, aabb is MoZ
15:10:41 [Norm]
Present: Rui, Paul, Henry, Richard, Andrew, Norm, Mohamed
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+MoZ; got it
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-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2008Sep/0024.html
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Henry: I read it again and while it was complex, that complexity stems from the complexity of the feature, I think.
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...I was left feeling that I wish we didn't have to do this.
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ScribeNick: Norm
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Norm: But we do...
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Norm: if anyone has any specific suggestions, I'd be happy to try, but I've done all I can.
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Mohamed: I think the examples are fine; I think it could be simpler, but mostly I just don't want users to be confused.
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Norm: I think most users will never need this, and hopefully by the time they do, there will be nice tutorials somewhere.
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Norm: Proposal: we're done, the revised prose is fine.
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Accepted.
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Topic: 008
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Norm: This was a comment RELAX NG step. Henry pushed a little bit about APIs. And I went off and took a closer look.
15:18:01 [Norm]
Norm summarizes his email.
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Norm: Err, dtd-id-idref-errors should be dtd-id-idref-warnings
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Henry: Works for me.
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Proposal: Accept Norm's suggestions, close the issue.
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Accepted.
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Topic: 032
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Norm summarizes the thread.
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Proposal is in: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-comments/2008Sep/0044.html
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Henry: I don't understand the phase thing, but I'm not going to argue about it.
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Proposal: Accept Norm's suggestions and close the issue.
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Accepted.
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Topic: 033
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Norm: The proposal is to standardize SVRL as the output.
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Henry: I have no problem saying that implementations SHOULD use SVRL[reference] for this purpose.
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Henry: The substantive issue of another output port for positive reports probably does need a new port.
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Norm: We already have a secondary port, can't we just put postive reports there?
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Henry: So it's impl defined what goes on that port. The only thing that's for sure is that if assert-valid is true then errors will go there if there are errors.
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Proposal: All reports (error or otherwise) go on the report port. We'll say that the output SHOULD be in SVRL.
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Accepted.
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Topic: 034
15:30:17 [Norm]
Norm: This amounts to a proposal for a secondary port on the validation steps on which the answer 'true' or 'false' appears depending on whether or not the validation was successful.
15:31:44 [Norm]
Henry: I got a private reply from James.
15:32:26 [Norm]
Henry: He agrees that try/catch can be used, but thinks it would be more consistent if the result was available directly.
15:33:15 [Norm]
Henry: Part of the problem is that in my pipeline, I support the PSVI and I have an extension function that makes it trivial to get this answer.
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...We could put the validity/validation attempted results on the document in an XProc namespace.
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Mohamed: Streaming is also a problem.
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Some discussion of encoding of PSVI items...
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Richard: It's possible that you might want to determine the validity w/o doing anything with the validated result.
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Richard: I think the argument you quoted about the output of the step reflects a different idea about what validation means. If you're just asking the question, then it is, but if you're expecting downstream steps to use the result, then it isn't.
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Norm: Neither answer seems compelling to me.
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Henry: What's someone going to do with this result? Presumably they're going to put a choose in and write to subpipelines anyway...
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Richard: Maybe not, maybe the answer is just true/false
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Norm: But that's not terribly useful by itself.
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Mohamed: I don't think it's worth having this answer. It would make streaming imposible, so try/catch wouldn't be too much of a burden.
15:40:18 [Norm]
...You just write your own wrapper pipeline to get the result.
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...Even in the proposal, there's the idea that you might want the error, etc. So that should be done in a try/catch.
15:40:36 [Norm]
Henry: Yeah, I agree.
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...This just encourages too many different ways to write the same thing.
15:41:33 [Norm]
Norm: We earlier set "can you do it yourself" as a criteria for new steps, that can apply here.
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Mohamed: Right. This would change all the validate steps which is too big a change from my perspective.
15:42:19 [Norm]
Propsal: Reject this request, you can get the result yourself with existing features of XProc
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Accepted
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s/Propsal/Proposal/
15:43:28 [Norm]
Topic: Where are we?
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Norm: Basically finished! The XSL/Query comment needs more work, but there's nothing major in it.
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... The question of XML encryption/decryption/c14n, etc. is something we'll discuss with the XML Security WG next week.
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15:45:34 [Norm]
Norm describes his feelings about security which amount to putting the new steps in a separate document.
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Henry: I've supported that approach already.
15:46:21 [Norm]
Mohamed: I think I agree. My proposal a few months ago was to put it all in a parameter port and try to standardize with a clear proposal. It ends up being the same to have it a separate note or REC-track document.
15:47:06 [Norm]
Mohamed: On C14N, we've already discussed this and said it was a user-defined option on serialization.
15:47:38 [Norm]
Norm: Good point! Thank you, Mohamed.
15:47:54 [Norm]
Topic: Test suite
15:50:25 [Norm]
Norm outlines that we'll get to CR just after the f2f. But we need tests to get out.
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Mohamed: How will we split up the work?
15:50:42 [Norm]
Norm: Submit tests and I'll contrive to get some reports about what the coverage is.
15:51:28 [Norm]
Norm: If people submit tests, I'll write some reports on analytics.
15:51:33 [Norm]
Mohamed: Ok, I'll write some tests.
15:52:06 [Norm]
Henry: If I have an idle day, I'll look at what would be required to convert my private tests into our format.
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ACTION: Norm to update teh RELAX NG grammer for the test suite vocabulary
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Topic: Any other business?
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None heard.
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Adjourned.
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-norm
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-ruilopes
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-richard
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-MoZ
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-Andrew
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-Ht
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-PGrosso
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were PGrosso, ruilopes, Ht, richard, Andrew, +1.646.378.aaaa, norm, +95247aabb, MoZ
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RRSAgent, set logs world-visible
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RRSAgent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/10/02-xproc-minutes.html Norm
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