Minutes of April Teleconference: 2001-04-18 13:00EDT

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

OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Voting Member Meeting

Minutes of teleconference 2001-04-18 13:00EDT

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

  - the committee welcomes Norm Walsh as a full voting member having 
satisfied the observer status requirements

Agenda
- amendments
   - discussion of the QA Summit
   - normative XSLT/XPath Recommendation documents
- motion to accept
   - moved: David, 2nd: Carmelo

Minutes of the last meeting
- review of minutes of March meeting
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200103/msg00008.html
- motion to accept minutes of meeting
    - moved: Lynda, 2nd: Carmelo

Reports of standing committees:
- Comparing Output and Role of Canonical XML - Lynda, Carmelo, Kirill
   - pending on submission from Kirill
   - canonical XML processor identified by Lynda
     - James Clark - http://www.jclark.com/xml/xp/index.html
                   - http://www.jclark.com/xml/XMLTest.java
                   - http://www.jclark.com/xml/
       - note the dates associated with the above files indicates the 
implementation is probably not according to W3C Canonical XML
     - IBM Alphaworks - http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmlsecuritysuite
       - note the site does not document conformance to W3C Canonical XML

- Discretionary Items - Dave, Kirill
   - catalogue of discretionary behaviour now published
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200104/msg00002.html
   - need to vote on whether the questions are in the right categories
     - members please vote by end of 2001-04-23

Outstanding action items
   - 20000906-ACT-8: (Tony) model and prototype XML report and exclusion
instance, working with David's results
   - Ken to undertake work starting in June
     - potential to expand design for generality
   - 20000906-ACT-9: (Carmelo) model and prototype rendition control
instance and XHTML production working with Tony's results
   - 20010213-ACT-1: (Ken) draft position paper to W3C-QA summit
     - closed
   - 20010213-ACT-2: (Lynda) post revised article on committee work
     - closed
   - 20010213-ACT-3: (All) comment on policy issues posted to list
     - open
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200103/msg00000.html
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200103/msg00001.html
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200103/msg00002.html
   - 20010213-ACT-4: (Ken) approach OASIS regarding the use of CVS or
other source code control for our later development
     - see www.SourceForge.net/projects/docbook for an example of another 
committee's work
   - 20010213-ACT-5: (Kirill) document proposed XPath, HTML and text
information set process
     - open

Agenda items
(1) - discussion of the QA Summit April 3, 2001
     - W3C wants to expand QA activity
     - arms-length review of committee output is desirable

(2) - Janet Daly - normative XSLT/XPath Recommendation documents are the 
documents in the http://www.w3.org/TR directory
     - the committee will continue citing the XML source document without 
calling it "normative"

New and old action items for next meeting
   - 20000906-ACT-8: (Ken) 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
   - 20010213-ACT-3: (All) comment on policy issues posted to list
     - open
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200103/msg00000.html
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200103/msg00001.html
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200103/msg00002.html
   - 20010213-ACT-4: (Ken) approach OASIS regarding the use of CVS or
other source code control for our later development
     - see www.SourceForge.net/projects/docbook for an example of another 
committee's work
   - 20010213-ACT-5: (Kirill) document proposed XPath, HTML and text
information set process
   - 20010418-ACT-1: (All) vote on discretionary items

Next meeting dates
     - Wednesday May 16, 2001 18:00-19:30CDT in Chicago at SIGS XML One 
Conference
     - June 13, 2001 13:00-15:00EDT teleconference
     - July 11, 2001 10:00-17:00EDT - Lotus, Boston

Acknowledgements
  - many thanks to XML Solutions for sponsoring teleconference today

Adjournment
  - 14:10


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