Meeting minutes
Previous Actions
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Michael: 2023-01-10-b: Michael to take another pass on the EBNF to BNF document. COMPLETED
2023-01-10-f: Norm and Michael to do a bit of revision to improve the draft documentation of the XML vINUEDcabulary (see #137) for further discussion. - CONTINUEDU
2023-10-03-a: Norm to create tests for renaming DONE 23 October 2023
2023-10-03-a: Norm to create tests for renaming DONE 23 October 2023
Norm close issue 197 without changes DONE 4 October 2023.
2023-10-03-d: Michael draft a FAQ, to include discussion of Unicode non-characters and non-Unicode characters Done.
2023-10-17-a: SP to document the modified IRI/URI grammar to make clearer why you might want it / need it, in preference to the literal transcription of the grammars in the RFCs. Mostly Done -Steven
2023-10-17-b: SP to draft proposed addition to section 3.3 saying explicitly that nonterminals are case-sensitive. DONE - needs discussion
ACTION: Steven to add the sentence to the spec.
2023-10-17-c: NTW to do some experiments with dynamic CSS, to see if we can turn section numbers on and off. DONE - posted link to version
2023-10-17-d: SP to make each heading hyperlink to the section it heads (on the model of the XSLT spec). - DONE
2023-10-17-e: SP to develop tests to detect version of Unicode supported. DONE - added to my Michael
2023-10-17-f: MSM to find the tests which currently provide different results based on version of Unicode supported, and send SP a pointer to them. Done.
2023-10-17-g: NTW to develop proposal for #192 (Line endings) with a menu of choices Done.
Status reports
John: Exploring full-length string matching
Norm: Experimental version 4 being worked on.
Steven: Working on leading empty item bug revealed by Michael's Unicode work.
Publication Plans
ACTION: Steven as group chair has to ask W3C to publish the report
Review and resolution of bug reports and technical issues
Michael: Pull request #207 Test of Renaming facility - agreed to merge
Michael: Pull request #211 A linear a-star test catalog and data
Norm: 3000 files a bit big! - Linear rather than exponential intervals
<norm> If you want to see my graphs, they're in here: https://
RESOLUTION: This pull request should be merged
Pull request #212 Tweak Unicode tests, add version detector - Michael/Norm to resolve merge conflict
Pull request #218 Small test catalog update (Norm) - Allows multiple grammar-result elements in a test-set-results element (needed for processors with support for multiple Unicode versions or other reasons for multiple results). Agreed to merge
Pull request #214 Oberon-based performance tests (Michael) - agreed to merge
Pull request #215 XSLT to make Bash script from catalog (Michael) - agreed as a useful tool. Agreed to merge (free of charge!)
Pull request #216 ixml grammars for performance testing (Michael) - more real-world cases. (Intended to act as a good basis for comparing various rewrite rules, etc.) . Agreed to merge
Pull request #217 Performance tests using XPath (Michael) - reduced-tree grammar. Real-world XPath expressions. Agreed to merge
Issue #198 Check that browsable test suite is being updated when tests are added (Norm) - Continue
Pull request #204 Toggle section numbers (norm) - Continue
Michael: Explanatory Documentation in the test catalog would be helpful - explaining what features of iXML and the target grammars are being exercised
Michael: Description of EBNF to BNF translation - difficult to check format of the report without merging.
<cmsmcq> Current EBNF to BNF document is at https://
Agreed to merge this
ACTION: Steven to review the EBNF to BNF document
Pull request #204 Toggle section numbers (norm). Agreed to merge
Issue #137 Document the XML tag set of ixml grammars (Norm & Michael) - Continue
v.Next issues
Issue #210 Extraneous material in section on Serialization
ACTION: Norm to tidy 'Extraneous material in section on Serialization'
<Steven> S: A. .
Some discussion about this subject - some thoughts about suggesting a name cannot/should not end with a '.' (Could be expressed in ixml)
ACTION: Michael - write a proposal regarding Period in names
<john> Next Meeting: 12th December @1500 UTC
Steven: Dutch government armed forces using iXML
<Steven> XSLTFOrms is adding ixml to its front end
fn: invisble-ixml() added to QT4 work