Minutes December Meeting: 2000-12-06 18:30-20:00

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

GCA Washington XML'2000 - OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Voting Member & 
Public Meeting

Meeting 2000-12-06 18:30-20:00EST
    (Combination teleconference and face-to-face at XML'2000 Conference, 
Washington)
    Hospitality Suite 8228

Public meeting: 20:00-21:00 Hospitality Suite 8228

Roll call and quorum 18:45
    Present:
      Tony Graham, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
      David Marston, Lotus Development Corp.
      Lynda VanVleet, Class Integrated Quality, Inc.
      G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd. (chair)
    Present by phone:
      John Robert Gardner, Sun Microsystems
      Kirill Gavrylyuk, Microsoft Corporation
      Carmelo Montanez, NIST
    Absent:
      Crisman Cooley, Overdomain
      John Evdemon, XMLSolutions

Agenda
- motion to accept - Tony; 2nd Carmelo

Minutes of the last meeting
- review of minutes of November meeting
    - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200011/msg00015.html
    - motion to accept - Lynda, 2nd David

Reports of standing committees
- Comparing Output and Role of Canonical XML - Lynda, Carmelo
   - Carmelo
     - compare expected output and actual output
     - ideas from Kirill re: both canonical and infosets; will submit
     - work proceeding
- Discretionary Items - Tony, Dave, Kirill
   - David - posted ideas in November
     - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200011/msg00014.html
       - Status of the Catalogue of Discretion
     - Carmelo to add link to home page
     - work is progressing

Motion to move away from the order of the day: JR, 2nd Kirill

Outstanding action items
    - 20000906-ACT-7: (David) model and prototype submitter documents
      - Tin Man submitted
      - can now be cited
    - 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
    - 20001004-ACT-1: (Carmelo) web site changes per discussion in meeting
of 20001004
      - done
    - 20001113-ACT-1: (JR) publish the revised policy document
      - done
    - 20001113-ACT-2: (Ken) contact OASIS again about depository access
      - still no status reported from OASIS

Agenda items
   - (David) discretionary items
     - work continuing in standing committee
   - (David) annotation
     - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200011/msg00019.html
     - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200012/msg00000.html
     - proposal accepted to progress through development stages with 
mini-selection regarding xsl:number created by David to test feasibility of 
system design
   - (Ken) support of features defined by reference
     - implicit behaviour of format-number() based on Java library description
     - specifically, the definition of zero digit being the basis upon 
which incrementing digits are displayed, even if not numeric
     - bugs?
     - same as xsl:number?
     - action: cite issue on-line for discussion

New and old action items for next meeting
    - 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
    - 20001113-ACT-2: (Ken) contact OASIS again about depository access
    - 20001206-ACT-1: (Ken) post issues of concern regarding features 
defined by reference

Next meeting dates
   - 9 January 13:00EST by teleconference
   - 13 February @ NIST, Washington
   - week of March 5 in Austin (Ken to arrange)

Acknowledgements
   - many thanks to Sun for teleconference facilities
   - many thanks to GCA/OASIS for conference room and long distance call

Adjournment 20:00

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