IRC log of xproc on 2008-01-31

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Zakim, this will be xproc
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ok, Norm; I see XML_PMWG()11:00AM scheduled to start in 33 minutes
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Meeting: XML Processing Model WG
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Date: 31 January 2008
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/01/31-agenda
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Meeting: 100
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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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+alexmilowski
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Got here first. I get a sticker.
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(on the call that is)
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+[ArborText]
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+??P4
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Zakim, ? is me
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+ruilopes; got it
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+[IPcaller]
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see alexmilowski, PGrosso, ruilopes, [IPcaller]
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+Norm
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zakim, [ is avernet
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+avernet; got it
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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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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 alexmilowski, PGrosso, ruilopes, avernet, Norm, Ht, richard
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Present: Alex, Paul, Rui, Alessandro, Norm, Henry, Richard
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Topic: Accept this agenda?
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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/01/31-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/2008/01/24-minutes
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Accepted.
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Topic: Next meeting: telcon 7 February 2008?
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No regrets given
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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 100: cherry picked items
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Alex: It'd be nice, but there's no standard serialization spec for it
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s/spec/control/
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Henry: Why?
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Alex: XQuery doesn't have it.
16:08:07 [MoZ]
Zakim, what is the code ?
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the conference code is 97762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), MoZ
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Norm: I don't have any recollection of a technical reason why it wasn't part of serialization.
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Present: +Mohamed
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+MoZ
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NOTE TO SCRIBE add what issue this is before the discussion
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Alex: I don't see anything in the serialization spec about excluding prefixes.
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Norm: Clearly it can be done, do we want to do this in XProc 1.0?
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Alex: It's critical if you want to send the output to IE?
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s/IE?/IE./
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Alex: But implementors could do this outside of the spec.
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Norm: We could let implementors do this as an extension.
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Alex: It doesn't even have to be an extension in the pipeline; it could be in how you run the processor.
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Henry: Gee, this is on the margins.
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...Fussing with namespaces and serialization is something on which one can waste arbitrary amounts of time.
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Alex: Implementors have lots of ways, it's a question of whether we make it a requirement.
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Henry: With my implementors hat on, I'd sort of rather not...
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Alex: Wouldn't an XSLT step at the end of the pipeline do it?
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Norm: I'm not sure.
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Richard: I'm not sure I understand the issue.
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Zakim, ? is me
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+ruilopes; got it
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Richard: In XSLT, exclude-result-prefixes is only about literal result elements in the stylesheet.
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Norm: Ok, so is there anything comparable?
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Ricahrd: If the pipeline itself binds some prefixes, then they're in scope for literal elements in it.
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Henry: Like an inline document.
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Some discussion of what the namespace bindings are for an inline document
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Alex: You could do this with a new step.
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Norm: I don't think we want to add this to serialization and I don't thnk we need to do it for any other reason.
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Henry: Someone is free to create a simplify-namespace step and we can adopt it for V.next if it's widely supported.
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Proposed: No, we aren't going to add anything for exclude-prefixes
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Accepted.
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Next up, should the 'path' attribute on p:directory-list be renamed?
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Richard: If I were renaming this, I'd probably call it something like 'directory-name'
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+??P22
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zakim, ? is Andrew
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+Andrew; got it
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uri-prefix
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Norm: Nikolay followed-up proposing just "uri" on the basis that it might support ftp:, jar:, file:, etc.
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...On that basis, I think I'd rather not change it.
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what about location ?
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Norm: Most implementations are only going to support file: URIs on the local host, so "path" makes some sense.
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Alex: Location?
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Richard: None of these is obviously better than "path".
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Proposal: No change.
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Accepted.
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Adding a scheme to p:label-elements that generates an ID from an XPath
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Alex: That would require another option
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Some discussion
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Richard: I've found that you often want to combine all sorts of possibilities.
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...for example, an XPath that gives you the count. I did it with a C-like format-string. It gets passed the prefix, suffix, and label.
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Some discussion of the possibilities
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-ruilopes
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Richard: If prefix/suffix can be XPaths then in the XPath case you can just say that the label is '' so that you just get the concatenation of prefix and suffix.
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Henry: We can always use an XPath and just require implementors to short-cut the simple case.
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Alex: I think I'm with Henry, we take three options and we make them into one.
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+ruilopes; got it
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pp:count-elements()
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It's nice that Alex likes my proposal, I like his
16:36:11 [Norm]
Norm boggles at a step-local function.
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Use a variable
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Richard: I think it's entirely reasonable for steps to have local functions.
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Henry: I like adding a variable. I like saying impl's must bind $p:index to a value for the evaluation of this expression.
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Norm boggles harder
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Richard: To say this adds something is no more true than saying that XSLT adds a bunch of stuff.
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...From the pipeline perspective, it's just a string. The label-elements step is the one doing the evaulation.
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Norm: I think we've drifted far enough that we need a proposal.
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ACTION: Alex to draft a proposal for this change.
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Comment 102: Default bindings for non-primary inputs
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HST believes the proposal is to replace 'prefix', 'suffix' and 'scheme' with 'label', with default value concat('_',$p:index)
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-ruilopes
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Norm tries to describe the proposal
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Zakim, [ is me
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+ruilopes; got it
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Alex: That is weird. That's not what you want in most cases.
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Proposal: Remove default bindings for non-primary inputs
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Accepted.
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Comments 107: Options in XSLT match patterns
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Henry: If 2.8.1 doesn't apply, then don't we need to say something similar
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The question of whether prefix is in-scope or not is open
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Or maybe it isn't
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Mohamed: Can we say that XSLT match pattern in XProc doesn't allow variable references, even if it's in XSLT2.
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...We leave it for V.next to say how we do this.
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-ruilopes
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+ruilopes; got it
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Henry: Section 2.8.2 says explicitly that there aren't any variables in steps.
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Henry: We can close this issue by saying, 'use select'.
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Richard: I'm now a bit confused by this description of the XPath context
16:55:12 [ht]
5.7.1.3 introduces 'select' and 'value' and explains that in-scope options are available for access by variable references
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Richard: What 2.8.2 should say is "except when otherwise specified by the step documentation"
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s/references/references in 'select' expressions/
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5.7.1.3 should point out that per 2.8.2 if a option 'value' is used as an XPath, those bindings will _not_ be available
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Richard: In fact, almost all these things do say "unless otherwise specified by the step"
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Norm: Editorial carelessness
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Richard: In fact, the XPath 2 case says that, we just need to fix the XPath 1 case.
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Henry: We should be clear in 5.7.1.3 about the value case and point to 2.8.2 from there.
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Topic: Any other business
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None.
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Adjourned.
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-Ht
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-PGrosso
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-ruilopes
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-Norm
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-alexmilowski
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-MoZ
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-Andrew
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RRSAgent, set logs world-visible
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-avernet
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-richard
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XML_PMWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were alexmilowski, PGrosso, ruilopes, [IPcaller], Norm, avernet, Ht, richard, MoZ, Andrew
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RRSAgent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/01/31-xproc-minutes.html Norm
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