Re: Candidate agenda items

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Some of my input to Wednesday's meeting:

At 00/09/29 15:41 -0400, David_Marston@lotus.com wrote:
>1. Should we publish our catalog of discretionary items in some forum where
>XSLT processor developers would see it and would be encouraged to provide
>data about the choices they made?

I'd like to see this published on our web site and announced in the mail 
lists and at the public meetings.  But we don't have to copy the message 
verbatim onto the web site, as I think all we need to do on our web site 
under a new section titled something like "Documents of note for public 
review and comment" would be links to the mail list archives.

Carmelo, could you please add such a section with the following items:

  - The Catalog of Vague, final September 2000 edition
  - Test Case Markup, Wooden Man edition

Please note in this new section that the public is invited to comment to 
the xslt-conformance-comment@lists.oasis-open.org address.  Also, please 
now remove my own email address and note prominently somewhere that if 
anyone wishes to send any comments to the committee they are to use the 
publicly archived xslt-conformance-comment@lists.oasis-open.org address.

>2. Do we want to apply the notion of "categories" to the test cases?

Yes.  And I think a given test case can apply to more than one 
category.  Given our suite configuration is based on XSLT, then selecting 
tests will probably be based on node sets and any union operations would 
therefore result in the multiple category selection of a given test only 
being selected once.

>3. How do we want to measure conformance to errata?

Would we not consider any erratum to be as weighty as the original document?

............... Ken

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