IRC log of xproc on 2008-01-10

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15:58:53 [Norm]
Zakim, this is xproc
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ok, Norm; that matches XML_PMWG()11:00AM
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Meeting: XML Processing Model WG
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Date: 10 January 2008
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/01/10-agenda
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Meeting: 97
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Chair: Norm
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Scribe: Norm
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ScribeNick: Norm
15:59:58 [ht]
zakim, please call ht-781
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ok, ht; the call is being made
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-Norm
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+Norm
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+Ht
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Ht (muted)
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+[ArborText]
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Ht, PGrosso
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+??P40
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zakim, ? is avernet
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+avernet; got it
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Regrets: Murray
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Ht, PGrosso, avernet
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+alexmilowski
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+??P43
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zakim, ? is me
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+richard; got it
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Ht, PGrosso, avernet, alexmilowski, richard
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-avernet
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+??P0
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zakim, ? is avernet
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+avernet; got it
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Present: Norm, Henry, Paul, Alessandro, Alex, Richard
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Topic: Accept this agenda?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/01/10-agenda
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Accepted
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Topic: Accept minutes from the previous meeting?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/01/03-minutes
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Accepted
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Topic: Next meeting: telcon 17 January 2008?
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Present: Norm, Henry, Paul, Alessandro, Alex, Richard, Andrew
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Topic: Face-to-face meeting in 2008?
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+??P3
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Norm: Anyone think we want to try to do that before the Tech Plenary? (Oct in Mandelieu)
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zakim, ? is Andrew
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+Andrew; got it
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Henry: I can imagine that we are sufficiently finished with XProc in a few months that it will be time to turn our attention to our other task.
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...Sitting around a table would be the best way to start.
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Norm wonders about Balisage...
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Norm: Let's wait and see
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Topic: Last call comments
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/09/lastcall/comments.html
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Comment 21: XProc localization
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Norm outlines his message about making p:error take its description from an input port
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Henry: This resonates with something I encountered when trying to simplify the early example pipelines.
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...Sometimes you'd like an alternative between an input port and an option.
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...For example, I'd like to be able to specify the XSLT stylesheet by way of an option instead of on an input port.
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...It's just laziness, but the idea of having an option and a port in a trading relationship seems very natural
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Henry: The alternative is that folks won't provide descriptions for errors.
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Henry: Do we want to consider adding this feature?
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Richard: Can't you do it with a select and an expression?
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Norm: No, because it gets turned into a string and the markup is thrown away.
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Norm: I guess my reaction is, gosh that's a nice feature but aren't we done adding features?
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Henry: It's not a feature it's a design pattern.
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Richard: It seems to me that it's a bit excessive for what it does.
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Support does not seem to be rising for the coocurrence constraint idea.
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Norm: Do we want to make the description of p:error an input port?
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Norm: I observe that it does require the user to make up some random document element for the message.
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Richard: What about structured content?
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Norm: No, way too much feature for now. We could remove the restrction to strings, but that didn't get support alst time it came up.
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
16:19:01 [Zakim]
On the phone I see Norm, Ht, PGrosso, alexmilowski, richard, avernet, Andrew
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Norm: Straw poll: Input or option?
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Input wins with unanimity.
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ACTION: Norm to change the spec to make error descriptions come from an input port on p:error
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Topic: Split the spec into two or three parts?
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Some discussion of why we might dot his
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s/dot his/do this/
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Richard: I'm inclined to keep them together.
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Richard: I think it's simpler for readers to ahve it all in one document.
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Paul: The biggest advantage as far as I'm concerned is that you could advance different parts to PER, for example, independently.
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Paul: For example, you can tell folks we haven't fiddled the language, we've just changed the steps.
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Henry made apoint earlier about the fact that breaking it into pieces doesn't necessarily make it into separate RECs
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Paul: I don't think it makes sense to do unless we make different RECs.
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Norm: The editor doesn't feel strongly one way or the other, for what it's worth.
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Henry: I think Paul's argument has value, but I don't feel that strongly either.
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Some discussion of adding steps in the future
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Henry: At worst, we can always change our minds later.
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...At V1.1 time, for example.
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The chair doesn't hear consensus for splitting the document at this time.
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Topic: Replace ignored namespaces with p:appinfo (or some such)
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Norm summarizes how we got where we are
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+??P5
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Richard: One advantage to inventing your own namespace is that it designates the owner of the ifno.
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s/ifno/info/
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Norm: We could mandate, suggest, or leave that problem to implementors
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Alex: Why?
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Henry: Because it's just not clear and is contradictory in the spec.
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Henry: The core of my problem is that we invite people to put an element between two steps but we say it musn't change the flow. That's just bizarre.
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Some discussion of the extent to which deleting them is appropriate.
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Norm: I guess the position I've come to is that ignored namespaces introduce some complexity without much benefit over having a single element for this purpose.
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Alex: What about making them top-level?
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Henry: Yes, excpet that the spec tries to do that and it gets confusing.
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Henry: Instead of putting it in subpipline, couldn't we put it in the prolog?
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Richard: Does having a p:appinfo solve the placement problem?
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Some discussion, basically yes.
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Alex: I'm partial to the ignored namespace thing, but I don't mind having an appinfo, as long as we don't call it "appinfo".
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Straw poll: keep ignored namespaces,or abandon them in favor of some element to be named later.
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Ht, PGrosso, alexmilowski, richard, avernet, Andrew, MoZ
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Results: 6 for new element, 1 for ignored namespaces, and 1 abstention,.
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s/n,./n./
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Name the new element...
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pipedata
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userdata
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pipeinfo
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pragma
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Results: pipedata: 3, userdata: 2, pipeinfo: 4, pragma: 3
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The winner is p:pipeinfo.
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Topic: Allow sequences on source and result of p:pipeline
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Norm: I'm inclined to say not.
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Alex: I'm inclined to allow them so that you don't have to jump into a new syntax just to provide two input documents.
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Richard: Because this is the simple case, I was expecting it to be used on the command line and that's possibly going to make the output syntax different.
16:51:12 [MoZ]
+1 with Richard on output
16:51:32 [Norm]
...I was planning to implement sequences as directories, that means I'll always get a directory even when there's only a single file.
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...I can work around it, but it seems a bit yucky.
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Some discussion of the various possibilities
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Ht, PGrosso, alexmilowski, richard, avernet, Andrew, MoZ
16:53:22 [Norm]
Alex: If I put an XSLT inside a pipeline, I shouldn't have to fiddle the syntax depending on whether or not a sequence is produced.
16:55:12 [Norm]
Straw poll: sequence or no sequence?
16:55:43 [ht]
I note that saxon 8 just concatenates multiple unnamed result-documents on stdout
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Results: sequence: 2, no sequence: 4, abstain: 2
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Henry: What about sequence on input, no sequence on output?
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Alex: I'm not going to lie down in the road over sequences.
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Alessandro: I think we shouldn't let constraints on the command line system influence how we design our language.
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Richard: I'd agree, except that we're only discussing the abbreviated form. And that does seem to me to have a more direct connection to useability on the command line.
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...It's there for simple cases.
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Norm: Is there anyone who can't live with no sequences on input or output
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None heard.
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Topic: Any other business?
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None.
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Henry: I'd like to encourage the wG to identify any issues between here and last call.
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Some discussion of circular imports in pending mail.
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Adjourned.
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-PGrosso
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-Ht
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-avernet
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-Andrew
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-Norm
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-MoZ
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-richard
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-alexmilowski
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were Norm, Ht, PGrosso, avernet, alexmilowski, richard, Andrew, MoZ
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RRSAgent, set logs world visible
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I'm logging. I don't understand 'set logs world visible', Norm. Try /msg RRSAgent help
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RRSAgent, set logs world-visible
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RRSAgent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/01/10-xproc-minutes.html Norm
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