IRC log of xproc on 2009-04-09

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Regrets: Henry, Mohamed
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Meeting: XML Processing Model WG
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Date: 9 Apr 2009
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2009/04/09-agenda
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Meeting: 139
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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
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Zakim, this will be xproc
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ok, Norm; I see XML_PMWG()11:00AM scheduled to start now
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has now started
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+Norm
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+[ArborText]
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+??P20
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zakim, ? is me
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+richard; got it
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+Jeroen
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Zakim, Jeroen is Vojtech
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+Vojtech; got it
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Present: Norm, Richard, Paul, Vojtech
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Topic: Accept this agenda?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2009/04/09-agenda
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Accepted.
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Topic: Accept minutes from the previous meeting?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2009/03/19-minutes
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Accepted.
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Topic: Next meeting: telcon 16 Apr 2009?
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No regrets heard.
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Topic: CR126 Request from TAG: Status of work on default processing model
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Paul: Are we still planning to try to address that?
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Norm: I think I'd like us to take a look at it
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Richard: Is the TAG responsible for overlapping things?
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Norm: I think the TAG is looking at some related issues, but they probably hope we'll provide some guidance.
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Richard: The description in the charter is pretty vague, perhaps we could get more specifics?
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Norm: Yes. Indeed.
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ACTION: Norm/Henry to attempt to provide a more crisp description of what's needed as a first step towards getting to this work.
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Richard: Use cases would be a good place to start. I've long imagined that one such use case is to answer the question "what does a web browser do with an XML document"
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Norm: I'll work this into the agenda more regularly so that we can track our progress.
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Topic: CR 100/101 Section 5.11, the inherited environment, and input/output ports.
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Norm attempts to summarize.
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Norm: I think the answer, whether the prose is clear or not, is that steps can't see their own inputs and outputs. The question of 5.11 is an attempt, I think to address the special case of p:output on a compound step.
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Richard: The outputs of a compound step are surely in the same state as the other step children of a subpipeline?
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Vojtech: I thought that in 5.11 the phrase "In all cases except the p:output of a compound step" was redundant.
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...When I read it, I went looking to see what was so special, but in fact I think it's covered by the other definitions. It isn't special.
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Norm: Fair enough, I'm happy to remove the phrase if it causes more confusion than clarity.
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Vojtech: Unless I missed something, I wasn't sure.
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Further discussion of 2.5
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Norm: In 100, the magic phrase from 2.5 is "the container's contained steps". Compound steps see their siblings, but not themselves.
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Vojtech: I have a compound step. It sees the output ports of its contained steps. Suppose one of the contained steps is a compound step.
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...Now inside that compound step, this step inherites the visibility of the output ports from its parent, which means that it sees it's output port.
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Richard: No, it sees the output ports of its siblings, not its parent.
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Norm: I think that second bullet in 2.5 needs to clarify that it doesn't apply to the contained step itself.
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Norm: To fix issue 100, we need to say "The union of all the declared outputs of all of the containers's contained steps *except this step* are added to the readable ports." But in better English.
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Agreed.
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Norm: Coming back to 101, I now think that prose is correct. It wouldn't be allowed according to the rules and rather than rewrite the rules to allow it, we're simply stating an exception.
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Agreed.
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ACTION: Norm to fix the rules in 2.5 to satisfy CR #100. CR #101 can be closed without action.
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Topic: #104 validate-with-xml-schema - multiple schemas provided
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Vojtech: If you have the validate with XML Schema step and you pass multiple schemas, what does that mean.
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Norm attempts to describe the schema validation rules of XSD.
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Vojtech: And what about xs:include and xs:import.
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Norm: I propose we wait for Henry's input.
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Topic: 105 p:xquery and c:data
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Vojtech explains.
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Norm: It boils down to whether the 3rd or 4th bullet in 7.2.9 applies. I don't think it much matters.
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Vojtech: I think we should say that it's c:data without a content-type or with a content-type that specifies a text content type...something like that.
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Norm: That works for me.
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Norm: Proposed: make the change that Vojtech outlines.
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Accepted.
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Topic: #106 p:exec - path separators
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Norm: My proposal is that "you lose" if you get mixtures of slashes and you turn on fix-slashes.
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Vojtech: So you lose if you need a mixture fo forward and backward slashes in the filename
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Norm: Only if you turn on the fix-slashes option.
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Norm: It seems like we have two choices, leave it as is or invent a new escaping mechanism.
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Richard: We could use a private use character or allow the fix-slashes option to specify which character to replace with the platform-specific slash.
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Norm: We've made pretty significant changes to p:exec already.
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Richard: I think I'd say that no-translation is applied unless you specify the fixup and then that fixup is applied everywhere.
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Vojtech: It sounds good to me.
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Norm: How about I write up a proposal that does this and we see if we like it.
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ACTION: Norm to write this up as a proposal.
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Topic: #107 p:exec - multiple source documents
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Vojtech: What do multiple source documents mean? Is it only to allow no documents?
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Norm: Yes, I think it probably was.
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Vojtech: So what happens if you pass two, is it an error?
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Norm: I think we should either say that its an error or say that its implementation-defined.
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Norm: Do you have any command-line tools that accept a sequence of documents on stdin?
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Richard: No, I don't think so.
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Norm: I propose we make it an error in V1 to pass a sequence of more than one document.
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Accepted.
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Topic: Any other business?
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None heard.
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-PGrosso
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-Norm
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-richard
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-Vojtech
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were Norm, PGrosso, richard, Vojtech
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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/2009/04/09-xproc-minutes.html Norm
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