Meeting minutes
ACTION: NW to add xsltforms implementation to the website
Welcome, David
David Birnbaum joins from the east coast of the US. New to iXML but an old hand at XML.
Approve the agenda
Steven suggests adding a report from the TPAC meeting.
Approved.
Approve the minutes of the previous meeting
Approved.
Next meeting, 15 October
No regrets heard.
Open action items
Steven: I got little done in the past month, but I have done a few action items.
Steven: I believe I've resolved my issues with GitHub.
Steven: I've drafted a PR for #263, will make a pull request.
Norm: will work with BTW on the XML vocabulary documentation
Steven: We will have to drop 2024-04-16a
2024-04-16-b is completed
2024-04-16-c is completed
Norm will investigate 2024-04-30-a, status is unclear
2024-04-30-b continues
Status reports
Steven: W3C had a meeting about the status of community groups. Both Norm and I planned to attend, but failed to.
… I tried to work out what the issues were. From the IRC script, they want to make sure that groups are actually doing things, and things that further the W3C mission.
… and also they seem to think that it's important that specifications make their way into the normal standards track.
Norm: Wat? They closed the XML Activity!
Steven: I'm just going to wait to see if they say anything about it.
Steven: The other thing I wanted to report is that we have a new implementation from xsltforms.
… It looks like a good implementation.
… So we now have two in JavaScript.
Steven: Nothing else to report.
… Well, I could say that at the end of the week I did a half hour talk at XML Summer School.
… I've also been asked to do the tutorial at Declarative Amsterdam again.
Norm: I have nothing to report.
Bethan: I have to submit my PhD corrections in three weeks, more after that!
Issue #262
Shall we merge it?
Agreement.
Issue #268
Norm: There are lots of "name" characters in XML that aren't in iXML.
Steven: I once proposed that our renaming proposal could include a string.
… On the right hand side of ">" you have either a name or a string.
Bethan: Would you need names, aren't they strings?
Steven: They've always been the same syntax until now.
Norm: With the normative note that the string has to conform to an XML name.
ACTION: SP to try out the renaming to a string.
ACTION: NTW to draft prose that expands on the discrepancy in names between iXML and XML.
ACTION: NTW to draft a document that describes the discrepancy in more detail.
ACTION: NTW to make sure that pragmas are on the agenda for next time.
Steven: I fixed #250, it'll be in my upcoming pull request.
Steven: #168 is really v.next, not an issue on the current spec
Steven: #75 is also v.next
Issue #266
General agreement that we should fix the tests.
ACTION: SP to review the ixml tests and correct the grammar
Issue #139
Steven: I think we agreed to include both versions of the RFC grammar, the literal translation of the ABNF and the one I did that provides more structure.
ACTION: SP to make a PR to add his version to the repsoitory.