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Subject: Minutes of meeting 2000-09-06 09:00-11:30EDT


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Minutes of meeting 2000-09-06 09:00-11:30EDT

Roll call and quorum
   Present:
     JR Gardner, ATLA-CERTR, Emory University
     Tony Graham, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. (by telephone)
     G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd. (chair)
     David Marston, Lotus Development Corp.
     Carmelo Montanez, NIST
     Lynda VanVleet, Class Integrated Quality, Inc.
   Regrets received:
     John Evdemon, XMLSolutions
   Absent: (none)

Announcements
  - an evening rendezvous was arranged prior to the public informational 
meeting

Agenda
  - additions to the agenda:
    - add item about contributions
    - discuss vagueness in the specification
    - talk about London meeting as well as San Jose meeting

Minutes of the last meeting
  - review of minutes posted Thu, 06 Jul 2000 19:27:21 -0400
    - archive address of the minutes
      - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200007/msg00015.html
    - motion by JR to accept; accepted with no objections

Reports of standing committees
- no standing committees yet established

Outstanding action items
  - 20000706-ACT-1: (Ken) call to XSLT list for test files
                    - complete
  - 20000706-ACT-2: (Tony) incorporate David's discretionary items to list
                    - completed ... adding David's additions
  - 20000706-ACT-3: (JR) draft policy wording
                    - completed
  - 20000706-ACT-4: (Tony) propose navigation mechanism for Recommendation 
files
                    - to be prototyped in the upcoming submitter's document 
model
                    - comment from David: could be model to the W3C; we 
could ask the W3C to identify testable statements during the authoring of 
Recommendations to make conformance testing easier
  - 20000706-ACT-5: (David) set up Boston meeting
                    - completed
  - 20000706-ACT-6: (Ken) update diagram re: XHTML
                    - completed
  - 20000605-ACT-3: (All) consider general architecture of the package 
produced by the committee
                    - completed
                    - general architecture as documented at last meeting 
considered acceptable
  - 20000301-ACT-1: (Ken) request write-only FTP address at OASIS
                    - in progress
  - 20000301-ACT-3: (John) contact extensibility for any possible test files
                    - pending
  - 20000301-ACT-4: (Ken) contact Keith Visco for any possible test files
                    - cancelled; no response
  - 20000301-ACT-5: (Ken) contact James Clark for any possible test files
                    - cancelled; no response

Agenda items
  - web site
    - Carmelo and Ken to address disaster recovery from OASIS site crash
  - contributions and correspondence
    - Michael Kay - ICL - pass on to David for examination
    - Ron Ten-Hove - Forte - JR will take responsibility for submission 
(300 tests)
    - NIST - Carmelo will take responsibility for submission (200 tests)
    - IBM/Lotus - David will take responsibility for submissions (1500 tests)
  - development plan
      - organization of submitter files
        - David overviewed analysis
        - Ken to discover OASIS policy regarding namespaces
        - JR contributed Sun efforts
        - Carmelo to send to David NIST's work
        - David to propose a document model and DTD for submitters
      - organization of the XML report
        - Tony to work with David's submitter's document and model the 
"exclusion instance" to produce the XML body of the report
      - organization of the XHTML reports
        - Carmelo to model the rendition control instance to describe 
processor behaviour
        - Carmelo to work with Tony's results
  - vagueness in the specification
    - David to word our policy of how we deal with vagueness in the 
specification
    - all areas to be identified and reported but only those areas for 
which behaviour is well defined will have test cases
    - to prevent abuse, any submitted test cases for areas whose bahaviour 
is not well defined will be excluded from the OASIS set
  - date, venue and objectives of October San Jose meeting
    - September 29 9:00PDT (Ed. note: see mail list for discussion based on 
results of public informational meeting)
  - London meeting - proposed that we have a public informational meeting

New agenda items
  - as raised during meeting

New and old action items for next meeting
  - 20000906-ACT-1: (all) review policy written by JR
  - 20000906-ACT-2: (Carmelo/Ken) - repair web site
  - 20000906-ACT-3: (David) examine Michael Kay's test cases for incorporation
  - 20000906-ACT-4  (JR) take responsibility for Sun test case submission
  - 20000906-ACT-5  (Carmelo) take responsibility for NIST test case submission
  - 20000906-ACT-6  (David) take responsibility for IBM test case submissions
  - 20000906-ACT-7: (David) model and prototype submitter documents
  - 20000906-ACT-8: (Tony) model and prototype XML report and exclusion 
instance, working with David's results
  - 20000906-ACT-9: (Carmelo) model and prototype rendition control 
instance and XHTML production working with Tony's results
  - 20000906-ACT-10: (Ken) contact OASIS re: namespace URI assignment policy
  - 20000906-ACT-11: (David) word policy regarding accommodating vagueness 
of the Recommendations
  - 20000301-ACT-1: (Ken) request write-only FTP address at OASIS
  - 20000301-ACT-3: (John) contact extensibility for any possible test files

Next meeting draft agenda
   - report progress on action items

Thanks to host
  - many thanks were expressed to David for his very helpful direction 
navigating the Boston T, and for arranging and hosting the meeting venue

Adjournment
  - the meeting adjourned at approximately 11:20


--
G. Ken Holman                    mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com
Crane Softwrights Ltd.             http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/m/
Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0   +1(613)489-0999   (Fax:-0995)
Web site: XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML services, training, libraries, products.
Book: Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN1-894049-05-5
Article:          What is XSLT? http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/08/holman
Next public instructor-led training:     2000-09-19/20,2000-10-03/05,
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