Minutes for July Teleconference/Face-to-face 2001-07-11 10:00-17:00EDT

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

OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Voting Member Meeting

Minutes for July Teleconference/Face-to-face 2001-07-11 10:00-17:00EDT

Teleconferences: 10:00-11:00EDT and 16:00-17:00EDT
Face-to-face: hosted by Lotus Development Corp., Boston

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

Agenda
- amendments
   - working backwards from test lab requirements
   - dropping use of Dublin Core names
- motion to accept
     - moved: Carmelo 2nd: Kirill

Minutes of the last meeting
- review of minutes of May meeting (as corrected on the maillist)
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200106/msg00007. 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xslt-conformance/200106/msg00007.html
- motion to accept minutes of meeting
      - moved: Dave 2nd: Carmelo

Reports of standing committees:
- Comparing Output and Role of Canonical XML - Lynda, Carmelo, Kirill
   - prototype hopefully today of comparing XML (except encoding)
   - proposed that information set note encoding but be encoded in UTF-8
   - take HTML off-line for discussion
   - text method posted in another message (to be reposted)
- Discretionary Items - Dave, Kirill
   - items now expressed in XML
   - genericization is happening to the catalogue of discretion
   - now the file is an input to the workflow

Outstanding action items
  - 20000906-ACT-8: (Ken) model and prototype XML report and exclusion 
instance, working with David's results
    - posted two prototypes validation of a test case instance
    - please review prototype for comments related to genericization
  - 20000906-ACT-9: (Carmelo) model and prototype rendition control 
instance and XHTML production working with Ken's results
    - Carmelo to post requirements
  - 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
    - closed
  - 20010213-ACT-5: (Kirill) document proposed XPath, HTML and text 
information set processes
    - XML posted
    - text to be reposted
    - HTML is work in progress
  - 20010514-ACT-1: (Carmelo) test review tracking methodology and 
implementation
    - work progressing
  - 20010613-ACT-1: (Chris) create draft prose of policy comments
    - closed
  - 20010613-ACT-2: (Ken) post needs for tracking system
    - closed
  - 20010613-ACT-3: (All) send Carmelo contact information
    - closed

Agenda items
  - work page tracking of all modules (requires manifest of all files)
    - for now it is acceptable to post a ZIP of the prototypes
    - explore description and separate posting of individual modules
  - prototype review and modification
    - no specific work for today; members to comment on future postings of 
prototypes
  - specification citations and consistency across document models
    - aspect of validation requires existence of section type
    - Ken to look at new citation model based on input from face-to-face
  - working backwards from test lab requirements
    - want to give them enough tools in the test catalogue so structure 
supports
    - face-to-face to summarize requirements of the test catalogue
  - dropping use of Dublin Core names
    - face-to-face to summarize recommendations on how to proceed
  - break out for face-to-face at 11:00EDT
  - report from face-to-face at 16:00EDT
    - have pulled together a directory tree of 5 submitted test suites
      - may be up to 7 or 8 different suites
      - each has different file organizations
    - developed about 20 open questions for document model (to be posted)
  - invitation for comment from all: when running a test is it necessary to 
change current directory to the directory with the test?  (to be posted)
  - question of whether we ship output file or information set instance of 
output file?
    - ship the information set instance for reference use
    - include the output file for information only (not reference use)

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-5: (Kirill) document proposed XPath, HTML and text 
information set processes
  - 20010514-ACT-1: (Carmelo) test review tracking methodology and 
implementation
  - 20010711-ACT-1: (All) review prototypes as posted
  - 20010711-ACT-2: (All) review Chris's draft prose of policy documents
  - 20010711-ACT-3: (Carmelo) post requirements for information required 
for human-legible report
  - 20010711-ACT-4: (Lynda,David) post requirements for information 
required for test-lab use
  - 20010711-ACT-5: (Ken) propose new document referencing models
  - 20010711-ACT-6: (Kirill) a prototype test bench for internal committee use

Next meeting dates
  - August 21, 2001 13:00-15:00EDT teleconference
  - September 25, 2001 13:00-15:00EDT teleconference

Acknowledgements
  - many thanks to Lotus for hosting the face-to-face

Adjournment

(please let me know of any corrections ASAP and I will post a corrected 
version)


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G. Ken Holman
Crane Softwrights Ltd.
OASIS Member
http://www.oasis-open.org