IRC log of xproc on 2006-11-16

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15:59:33 [Norm]
Meeting: XML Processing Model WG
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Date: 16 Nov 2006
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/11/16-agenda.html
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Meeting: 44
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Chair: Norm
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Scribe: Norm
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ScribeNick: Norm
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has now started
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+Alex_Milowski
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zakim, please call MSM-Office
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ok, MSM; the call is being made
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+MSM
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zakim, who's here?
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On the phone I see Alex_Milowski, MSM
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On IRC I see alexmilowski, Alessandrp, RRSAgent, richard, Zakim, Norm, ht, MSM
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+??P43
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zakim, ? is me
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-??P43
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+??P43
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+richard; got it
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Zakim, [IP is Alessandrp
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sorry, Alessandrp, I do not recognize a party named '[IP'
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+Bill_Bug
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Bill Bug?
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+[ArborText]
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zakim, what's the passcode?
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the conference code is 97762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200), Norm
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+Norm
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Alex_Milowski, MSM, richard, Bill_Bug, PGrosso, Norm
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zakim, Bill_Bug is Alessandrp
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+Alessandrp; got it
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Alex_Milowski, MSM, richard, Alessandrp, PGrosso, Norm
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zakim, please call ht-781
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ok, ht; the call is being made
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+Ht
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+??P33
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zakim, ? is AndrewF
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+AndrewF; got it
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Alex_Milowski, MSM, richard, Alessandrp, PGrosso, Norm, Ht, AndrewF
16:06:02 [Norm]
Present: Alex, Michael, Richard, Alessadro, Paul, Norm, Henry, Andrew
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Regrets: Mohamed
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Topic: Accept this agenda?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2006/11/16-agenda.html
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Accepted.
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Scribe failed to post 9 Nov minutes; will approve at the next meeting
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Topic: Next meeting: telcon 30 Nov 2006 (23 Nov is U.S. Thanksgiving)
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Regrets from Micheal, Henry
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Topic: Technical agenda
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Topic: Review of the 17 Nov draft
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Henry: I'm happy
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Approved for publication on 17 November.
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+Murray_Maloney
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http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/langspec.html
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Topic: Syntax of for-each/viewport/choose (match/select semantics)
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Scribe describes the situation summarized in mail @@@URI HERE@@@
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Murray: Maybe we should have moved the attributes off those elements.
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Murray: On subordinate elements, for example.
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Norm: the other possibility is to move them up.
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Henry: I think I prefer to move them up too.
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Richard: Is it the case at the moment that input/output are the only thing that declare ports.
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Henry: These elements are schizophrenic here.
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Richard: Input on viewport is particularly strange on viewport because the select means something else.
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Henry: I propose that the editor try it with the attributes on viewport/for-each/etc.
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Norm: That would suggest resolving the syntactic ambiguity of foreach/viewport/choose by moving the attributes up.
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Murray: Is there anyone who wants to move them down into input.
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Michael: Maybe.
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Richard: I can see your point, but the place where the magic occurs here is on viewport and putting more elements inside viewport doesn't seem like it's going to help.
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...It doesn't have the effect that a select has on a normal input regardless of where it is.
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...In this particular case, magic happens with the parts of the document that aren't selected.
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Norm: I'm concenred too.
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s/concenred/concerned/
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Murray: Would it be reasonable to put a match attribute on viewport and leave the input?
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Henry: I've been wondering that myself.
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Richard: Would we then disallow the select attribute?
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Murray: Why?
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Richard: I imagine the viewport match as doing something to the whole document.
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Henry: Then the input is really just the input.
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Richard: If the input worked just like a normal input, that would be fine. But it ought not to be that the viewport element also specified the match and the internal name of the port.
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Henry: We're circling around to where we were at Murray's place.
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Norm: So the proposal is to have the input just be a normal input and have two new attributes on viewport to name the magic port and the match attribute.
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Norm: In this case, it would be reasonable to have select and match and they would do the obvious thing.
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Norm: So would we do the same thing with for-each?
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Alex: Sounds good to me.
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Murray: So there'd be a double select?
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Norm: Yes.
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Norm: Does this solve the choose problem?
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Henry: No.
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Murray: Since there's only one select/match on the outer element, can't we just give the port a magic name?
16:28:30 [Norm]
Norm: Magic name would work because you have to name both the step and the port.
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Norm: I'm not see the value in giving a magic name.
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Murray: Everywhere else you give a name, you do so on an input element.
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Alex: That's a good point. We don't get to name ports.
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Norm: I can go with that.
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Norm: Anyone have a problem with using a fixed name?
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None heard.
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Norm: Now we need names.
16:30:29 [ht]
HST is happy with fixed names, not sure I like 'i'
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Alex: I'll throw out "current"
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Norm: I like current.
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Richard: We have various standard components that we've made up names for.
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...Identity uses 'input' where others use 'document'.
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Richard: I usually imagine that there's a source and a result and a stylesheet off on the side.
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Alex: So, in this case also, we're always going to have a document.
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...If you took in a document, then I called the port name 'document'
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...In viewport and for-each it's always a document, so we could go with 'document'
16:31:59 [ht]
I like 'source' better than 'input', but I also like 'document' when you know it _is_ a document
16:32:37 [Norm]
Richard: My only problem with 'document' is that it doesn't have any parallel with 'result' on output.
16:32:49 [Norm]
Alex: I was thinking we could come back to the general naming question later.
16:33:49 [Norm]
Norm: I think we're talking about the name of the port on p:input
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Murray: The GRDDL folks wanted to call things grddl-source and grddl-result. I had to point out that there were really only documents. They might be used by GRDDL, but that's not what they're for.
16:34:35 [Norm]
...I got them to change to input-document and result-document.
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Aside: I was confused. I was thinking we were talking about the inner output port name.
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...I understand that for some components, we have to differentiate the names.
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Alex: I think viewport and for-each should both allow sequences.
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Norm: I think we decided that they take single documents.
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Alex: At least for-each has to allow sequences.
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Richard/Henry: Yes
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Henry: It must be the case that there is a way to iterate some subpipeline over a sequence of documents.
16:38:05 [Norm]
Murray: One vote against document.
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Norm: Do you have a strong preference for 'input' over 'source'
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Murray: Yes.
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Richard: That would suggest that the output should be called 'output' not 'result'/
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Henry: I have often considered that we ought to call both the primary input and output ports 'primary'
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Some discussion of the status quo which outlaws that.
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Norm: Murray has proposed the name 'input' for the input port of both for-each and viewport. Any objections?
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None heard.
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Norm: Alex has proposed the name 'current' for the "magic port" that subpiplines read from inside for-each and viewport. Any objections?
16:44:21 [ht]
"subdoc"...
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Henry: It doesn't speak to me. It makes a lot of sense for XSLT-weenies, but doesn't make any sense elsewhere.
16:44:38 [ht]
Murray suggested "i"
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Richard: We could call it "<>" as Perl does
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dot
16:45:31 [Norm]
Norm laughs maniaccly
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s/Maniaccly/Maniacly/
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Norm: Can everyone live with current for the next draft.
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Yes.
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Done\
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Murray: How about 'this'?
16:46:30 [richard]
"it"
16:47:14 [ht]
"subtree"
16:47:48 [Norm]
Norm: The only thing we haven't made progress on is choose, but maybe they're similar enough to be ok.
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Alex: Are we going to make these changes for 17 Nov?
16:48:28 [Norm]
Norm: No.
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Alex: I think we should try to synchronise the standard components against them.
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Norm: If we use input, should we use output.
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Murray: It would help our defaulting story if an unspecified name defaulted to some default.
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Murray: I could go back and forth between source/result and input/output.
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...Maybe source/result is more evocative.
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Norm: I'm torn.
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Alex_Milowski, MSM, richard, Alessandrp, PGrosso, Norm, Ht, AndrewF, Murray_Maloney
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Norm: Straw poll: input/output or source/result
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HST has to make a call on another line, prefers source/result, going on mute
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Results: 7 prefer source/result and 2 prefer input/output
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Norm: I propose we use source/result in the next draft.
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Norm: Overriding our previous decision to use 'input'
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Richard: Including standard components?
16:53:34 [Norm]
Norm: Yes.
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Norm: Any objections?
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None heard.
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Topic: Any other business?
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None.
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Adjourned.
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-Murray_Maloney
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-richard
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-Ht
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-AndrewF
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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-PGrosso
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-Alex_Milowski
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-Alessandrp
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On the phone I see MSM, Norm
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see MSM, Norm
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16:58:24 [Norm]
rrsagent, please make logs world-visible
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rrsagent, please draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2006/11/16-xproc-minutes.html Norm
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-Norm
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-MSM
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were Alex_Milowski, MSM, richard, PGrosso, Norm, Alessandrp, Ht, AndrewF, Murray_Maloney
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zakim, who is on the phone?
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apparently XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended, MSM
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On IRC I see Alessandrp, RRSAgent, Zakim, Norm, ht, MSM
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rrsagent, bye
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I see no action items