Minutes for June Teleconference 2001-06-13 11:00-13:00EDT

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

OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Voting Member Meeting

Draft Agenda for June Teleconference 2001-06-13 11:00-13:00EDT

Roll call and quorum
   Expected by phone:
     Crisman Cooley, Overdomain
     Kirill Gavrylyuk, Microsoft Corporation
     Lofton Henderson
     G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd. (chair)
     David Marston, Lotus Development Corp.
     Chris Miller, FutureNext Consulting (observer)
     Carmelo Montanez, NIST
     Ben Robb, cScape (observer)
     Lynda VanVleet, Class Integrated Quality, Inc.
     Norm Walsh, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
   Absent
     John Evdemon, XMLSolutions

Agenda
- amendments (added below)
- motion to accept
     - moved: Carmelo 2nd: Lynda

Minutes of the last meeting
- review of minutes of May meeting
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200105/msg00006. 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200105/msg00006.html
- motion to accept minutes of meeting
      - moved: Kirill 2nd: Lynda

Reports of standing committees:
- Comparing Output and Role of Canonical XML - Lynda, Carmelo, Kirill
   - work done on XML and text
   - HTML not addressed yet; consider using Tidy as a partial solution
     - URL http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
- Discretionary Items - Dave, Kirill
   - XMLified catalog of discretion being used to generate other documents
   - minor enhancements required
     - human readable sequential report from the XML

Outstanding action items
     - 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 Ken's results
     - 20010213-ACT-3: (All) comment on policy issues posted to list
     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
       - Chris Cooley to draft for July meeting
     - 20010213-ACT-5: (Kirill) document proposed XPath, HTML and text 
information set processes
     - 20010514-ACT-1: (unresolved) test review tracking methodology and 
implementation
       - tasked to Carmelo
       - Ken to take comments and post the need
       - Dave: tracking aspects at different levels of granularity
           - reviewing a chunk-level granularity of tests by a committee member
           - test-level granularity of outcomes and public comments
     - Lynda has volunteered to help with attendance tracking

Agenda items
  - Ken - genericizing the design to accommodate other TCs
        - no objection to attempting genericization
  - W3C Q/A - Dave observed we are in the matrix
            - proposed charter and interest group
            - a few members indicated interest and have been asked to be 
unofficial liaison members
  - Carmelo - release all tests submitted as a draft before committee has a 
chance to review according to process
            - no objections to having a cut-off date for submissions 
followed by a complete review before release
  - Conferences - XML One - San Jose - Lynda
                - XML DevCon - San Jose - Lynda
                - XML Edge - Santa Clara - Ken
                - XML World - San Francisco - Lynda
                - XML 2001 - Orlando - Lynda (and many others)
                - XML One - Amsterdam - Ben
                - Web Services Summit - Boston - Lynda
                - XML Magazine - Washington, DC - October 22/23 - (no-one)
  - Dave - document model will remain flat and reflect the hierarchy in a 
single identifier value
         - one-liner max 255

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 Ken's results
  - 20010213-ACT-3: (All) comment on policy issues posted to list
     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-5: (Kirill) document proposed XPath, HTML and text 
information set processes
  - 20010514-ACT-1: (Carmelo) test review tracking methodology and 
implementation
  - 20010613-ACT-1: (Chris) create draft prose of policy comments
  - 20010613-ACT-2: (Ken) post needs for tracking system
  - 20010613-ACT-3: (All) send Carmelo contact information

Next meeting dates
  - July 11, 2001 10:00-17:00EDT - Lotus, Boston
  - August 21, 2001 13:00-15:00EDT teleconference
  - September 25, 2001 13:00-15:00EDT teleconference

Acknowledgements
  - many thanks to XML Solutions (Vitria) for provision of the 
teleconference facilities

Adjournment

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