W3C

– DRAFT –
Invisible XML Community Group

20 January 2026

Attendees

Present
Alan, Bethan, Nico, Norm, Steven
Regrets
-
Chair
Steven
Scribe
Norm

Meeting minutes

Accept the minutes of the previous meeting

Accepted.

Also, reconfirming acceptance of the minutes from 25 November 2025.

Review of open actions

2025-11-25-a: Steven to draft prose on Unicode version

Completed.

2025-11-25-c: Steven to draft a document about ambiguity.

Completed.

2025-11-25-b: Norm draft prose for namespaces reference

Completed.

2024-03-05-c: SP to prepare pull request to resolve issue #139 (new grammars, new README)

Continued.

2025-08-19-a: SP to review pull request #296.

Continued.

2025-04-15-a: NW to try to clarify “parse tree” in the specification in a way that is satisfactory to everyone

Pending 2025-08-19-a

Continued.

Status reports

Norm: I plan to do a new version of NineML before the symposium.

First Int’l Symposium on Invisible XML

Steven: I'd like a little more time for my proposal.

Some discussion of the schedule for the symposium

A draft schedule has been proposed.

Steven: I have a license for the Zoom.

Steven: We should have a dry run.

Norm: Let's call the 17 February meeting the dress rehearsal.

Some discussion of the Zoom links. There will be two different links.

ACTION: Norm to make a draft schedule available.

Bethan: We need to check if participants will be happy to be recorded, with the priviso that they can review the recording before publication.

Steven: I think we should assume you're okay with both unless you disagree.

Summary of action items

  1. Norm to make a draft schedule available.
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 248 (Mon Oct 27 20:04:16 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/25-x/25-c/

Maybe present: 2024-03-05-c, 2025-04-15-a, 2025-08-19-a, 2025-11-25-a, 2025-11-25-b, 2025-11-25-c

All speakers: 2024-03-05-c, 2025-04-15-a, 2025-08-19-a, 2025-11-25-a, 2025-11-25-b, 2025-11-25-c, Bethan, Norm, Steven

Active on IRC: norm