Minutes of January Teleconference: 2001-01-09 13:00EST

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

OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Voting Member Meeting

Teleconference 2001-01-09 13:00-14:00EST

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

Agenda
- motion to accept: Carmelo, 2nd: Chris

Minutes of the last meeting
- review of minutes of December meeting
   - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200012/msg00010.html
- motion to accept minutes of meeting: Lynda, 2nd: Kirill

Reports of standing committees
- Comparing Output and Role of Canonical XML - Lynda, Carmelo
   - no report at this time
   - committee teleconference before next meeting
- Discretionary Items - Tony, Dave, Kirill
   - committee teleconference took place
   - work progressing on revised list of items

Motion to move away from the order of the day: Carmelo, 2nd: John

Outstanding action items
      - 20000906-ACT-8: (Tony) model and prototype XML report and exclusion 
instance, working with David's results
        - pending, as expected
      - 20000906-ACT-9: (Carmelo) model and prototype rendition control 
instance and XHTML production working with Tony's results
        - pending, as expected
      - 20001113-ACT-2: (Ken) contact OASIS again about depository access
        - still no news from OASIS regarding status
      - 20001206-ACT-1: (Ken) post issues of concern regarding features
defined by reference
        - done

Agenda items
     - (David) Tin Man Design Questions 1-11 posted to list
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00000.html
       - 1: dash separated and lower case (by majority)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00001.html
       - 2: awaiting examples (no decision)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00002.html
       - 3: yes we will have categories (by majority)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00003.html
       - 4: new lines not allowed (by majority), length undetermined (no 
decision)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00004.html
       - 5: John to post comment on W3C notation for errata documents (no 
decision)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00005.html
       - 6: lump within container element (acclamation)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00006.html
       - 7: lump (acclamation)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00007.html
       - 8: stay the course (acclamation)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00008.html
       - 9: merge the two ports (by majority)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00009.html
       - 10: (postponed)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00010.html
       - 11: not accommodate test labs (by majority)
     - (Ken) Two format-number() issues posted to list
       - discussion already commenced on mail list
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00011.html
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00012.html

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

Next meeting dates
   - 13 February @ NIST, Washington (Carmelo to post details)
   - March 5 18:00 in Austin at SIGS/101 XML One Conference (not at the GCA 
Knowledge Technologies '2001 conference in Austin the same week)
   - noted privately by chair that future teleconferences should be longer; 
try two hours next time

Acknowledgements
   - thanks to Sun Microsystems for the provision of the teleconference 
facility

Adjournment 14:08

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