Meeting minutes
<nico> Sorry, still working on the server (which also caused problems for Declarative Amsterdam).
2024-08-06-a, SP to draft a PR to address #263, (serialization of attributes)
(Completed: https://
Review of open actions
2023-01-10-f: NTW to produce draft documentation of the XML vocabulary, issue #137
Continues
2024-03-05-c: SP to prepare pull request to resolve issue #139 (new grammars, new README)
2024-10-01-f: SP to make a PR for both versions of the RFC grammar
Continues
2024-04-30-b: BTW to open an issue on whether to adopt a scheme to distinguish 'major' from 'minor' versions in version numbers.
Continues
2024-10-01-b: SP to make a PR for renaming as a string
(Completed: https://
Done
2024-10-01-e: SP to review ixml tests and correct the grammar
Continues
2024-xx-xx-a: SP? to make a PR to fix #250, alias delimiter “>” should be hidden
(Completed: https://
Done
2024-10-29-a: JWL to provide more detail about the subtraction operator
Done
Review of change proposals
Norm: Changes made to help with diff
Norm: Editorial change - ids on headings
Steven: A request made long ago which I did, so that you can click on a heading to get a reference to that heading
Status reports
Norm: I will work on a C# version next year
Steven: I've added renaming to strings
John: I've fixed error reports of hex numbers
Use pragmas for the prolog?
Norm: Pragmas need scope.
Steven: And how to identify where a pragma applies
John: I think a pragma in the prolog at the start should apply to the whole grammar.
Norm: The Balisage paper solves this
Steven: I definitely need to reread that then
John: Pragmas in the prolog should have a different syntax
A subtraction operator
[John explains his subtraction proposal]
<norm> invisibleXML/
John: Do we want to handle cases like the one Nico proposed for excluding "XML"
Norm: If you can recast subtraction as a modification of the grammar, that would be a way of saying it applies to all parsing algorithms.
… but I would be wary of something that we don't know how to do in other parsers.
John: I'm pushing it in programming language parsing.
Norm: We need a generic solution
Steven: Needs research
ACTION: Norm to ask Gunther about subtractions
Next meeting
Tue 26th November
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