Proposed Agenda for February Meeting: 2001-02-13 09:30EST

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

OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Voting Member Meeting

Meeting 2001-02-13 09:30-17:00EST
(Teleconference from 10:00EST)
NIST North Campus (not the main campus)
820 West Diamond Ave
Gaithersburg, MD
http://xw2k.sdct.itl.nist.gov/carmelo/xslt/driving.html

Roll call and quorum
       Expected Present:
         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)
       Observers:
         Norm Walsh, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (by teleconference)
         Demetrios Ioannides, ComcastNet
       Regrets:
         Crisman Cooley, Overdomain

Agenda
- motion to accept: 2nd:

Minutes of the last meeting
- review of minutes of December meeting
    - 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200101/msg00024.html
- motion to accept minutes of meeting: 2nd:

Reports of standing committees
- Comparing Output and Role of Canonical XML - Lynda, Carmelo
- Discretionary Items - Tony, Dave, Kirill

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

Outstanding action items
   - 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
     (see http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xslt/xslt_upload.phtml for page)
   - 20010109-ACT-1: (John E.) post comment on W3C notation for errata 
documents
   - 20010109-ACT-2: (Kirill) post comments on use of infoset

Agenda items
1. (David) Review the state of the Catalog of Discretion
2. (David) Questionnaire for all processor developers about their design 
choices
3. (David) Idea of a "smoke test" transformation that exercises all aspects 
of XSLT needed to assemble and render the OASIS suite.
4. (David) Idea that there is some minimum capacity (e.g., depth of nested 
xsl:if) that is advisable for running the tests. Not to be confused with 
memory usage.
5. (Ken) Discuss committee contribution to WWW-QA Summit 
http://www.w3.org/2001/01/qa-ws/ (Ken has already requested registration 
for the first of the two days; David may be there both of the days)

New and old action items for next meeting

Next meeting dates
    - note we have to start planning at least two months in advance in 
order to get conference space where possible
    - possibly March 6, 19:00-21:00CST in Austin at SIGS/101 XML One 
Conference (not at the GCA Knowledge Technologies '2001 conference in 
Austin the same week)
    - possibly Friday April 13 (ouch!) afternoon in New York at Camelot XML 
DevCon Conference (location of OASIS Annual general meeting)
    - possibly Tuesday or Wednesday May 15/16 in Chicago at SIGS XML One 
Conference

Acknowledgements

Adjournment


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