Meeting minutes
Welcome to ixml Delft group
Steven: They are 5 people on a 10 week project to implement ixml in Rust.
… now about half way.
Accept the minutes of the previous meeting
[No objections]
Review of open actions
Steven: Nothing to report on actions
Status reports
John: Workbench has added download capabilities.
… also not yet released but implemented attributes revealing location of the source text.
Steven: I've submitted my paper to Prague on state of play and developments in this group
… I will also be doing a tutorial on use cases of ixml
Steven: And now Delft
Giovanni: working on error reporting
Huy: Command line interface
Vasco: Building the parse forest, and SPPF
Alex: Parsing, and integration of test suite
Steven: One other person, David, doing parsing
Alex: No insertions currently
… Working on serialisation.
… doing all the current development spec.
… Vasco is working on the not operator
… other finding small issues
John: You're working on the parsing of the grammar. Is this via a bootstrap, or hardcoded?
Giovanni: Hardcoded
John: I agree that it's the easiest way
… I encourage you to parse grammars for transformation, and also accept XML format trees in the future
Alex: I've figured out how the test suite works, but it could be better documented (IMHO)
… some tests don't match the description
… this seems to be about what the test is actually testing
… today I figured out the test catalogue
… I could have benefitted by more description.
ACTION: Steven to add "test Documentation" as an issue when Codeberg is ready
John: We use a method that we were already familiar with
… many tests are failure tests
… you can contact me if you have problems
Alex: I tried to use XML Starlet, and failed
… the inference of what the expectation of a test is only got me to 90% understanding
… input+output then you expect success
… for instance, but some tests have neither input or output.
Prague
Steven: Many of us will be in Prague next week, where we can talk.
Steven: The next meeting would have been the 9th, but that is cancelled, so next is 16th.
[Discussion of possible additions to Delft interfaces]