DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 Jun 2001 ======================================================== Meeting called to order at 13:04 by the chair. | Agenda | ------ | | 1. Roll call Norman Walsh, Chair Sabine Ocker Michael Sabrio Michael Smith Regrets: Dennis Evans Having failed to attend three consecutive meetings, Sunthar Visuvalingam's membership in the TC lapses. | 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting Accepted. | 3. Review of the agenda Accepted. | 4. Review of open action items | | a. Norm to clarify status of EBNF, MathML, and HTML Forms modules Completed[2]. | b. Norm to add class='newsgroup' to systemitem Completed. | c. Norm to write concrete proposal for <co> in inlines that can | occur in screen Completed[3]. Moved to accept the proposal. Accepted without objection. Action: Norm to implement the proposal. | d. Norm to write a concrete proposal for linking in DocBook 5.0 Continued, the XLink WG isn't finished yet. | e. Norm to move open RFEs to SourceForge Completed[4]. | f. Norm to publish closed RFEs as a static page for historical reference Continued. | g. M. Sabrio to investigate what elements his group would like | to put metadata on Completed. Action: M. Sabrio to post to the docbook list. Attibutes vs. elements? Norm suggests that elements are probably better since they would potentially allow for multiple namespaces (Dublin Core, OMF, etc.) They also allow for richer content. | h. Norm to propose new "name and address" markup Continued. | i. Dennis to ask local help author for information on help topic | authoring Transferred to Sabine. See item 6, below. | j. Norm to add section.class parameter entity Completed. | k. Norm to post note about expanding the content model of filename | and certain other inlines to the list. Completed[5]. | l. Norm to publish a version of the Simplified DocBook DTD as an | official test release. Completed[2] | 5. Expanding the content model of filename and certain other inlines | | Action, Command, Database, Filename, Hardware, Interface, KeyCap, | Literal, Option, Parameter, Property, and SystemItem. Moved to accept the proposal. Accepted without objection. Action: Norm to implement the proposal. | 6. Adapting DocBook for more topic-oriented manuals Action: Sabine to continue Dennis's action item and write an initial proposal. | 7. Content model issues relating to lists and procedures. Action: Sabine to post a summary of continuing discussions. | 8. Any other business None. | 9. Review of Requests for Enhancement (RFEs) | | 412476 Class on ProductName should be #IMPLIED Proposed: make it #IMPLIED in V6.0 Accepted without objection. Action: Norm to implement the proposal | 413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME This is generic linking again, leave pending. | 416478 FigureGroup tag Rejected. It seems that the author could get the desired result in several other ways: by placing several images in a single <figure> wrapper, by using another container to hold them, or by using role attributes. This appears to be a rendering issue. | 417671 add section element to refentry Accepted. Action: Norm to implement. | 423598 Content models that allow BridgeHead Accepted. Action: Norm to implement. | 424577 Make refsection parallel to section Duplicate of 417671. | 425730 Create an SVG module Accepted. Action: Norm to implement. | 426382 Allow SimpleSect inside Section Accepted. Action: Norm to implement. | 431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability Pending. | 431412 RFE 113: proc. exp. of RevHistory order Closed. Note that there is no order. Action: Norm to update the documentation. | 431413 RFE 121: add markup for signals Proposed: suggest adding two new class values, 'Event' and 'EventHandler' to SystemItem. Accepted without objection. Action: Norm to contact the original author and see if this satisfies the use cases. | 431415 RFE 124: add markup for host identifiers Previously accepted: We already have a class on systemitem for systename. We suggest that these are further useful class values for systemitem but do not warrant a unique element name. We'll add the following class attributes to systemitem: domainname, fqdomainname, ipaddress, netmask, etheraddress. We consider hostname already covered by systemname. Action: Norm to implement. | 431417 RFE 126: allow SimpleSect in Section Duplicate of 426382. | 431418 RFE 128: typing and linking in funcdef Previously accepted: We'll add type to the content model of funcdef and paramdef to allow authors to specify that types are in fact types. Linking will be handled by XLink in some future version. Action: Norm to implement. | 431419 RFE 130: markup protocol, FS type, part. Previously accepted: Protocol is another example of a case where we need to consider the design more carefully (what other things are like protocols); in the meantime use literal, phrase, or some other markup with a role attribute. We'll add 'filesystem' to the class attribute of systemitem. We'll add 'partition' to the class attribute of filename. Action: Norm to implement. | ?????? Add language attribute to fieldsynopsis et al. Proposal: Add language attribute to fieldsynopsis, constructorsynopsis, destructorsynopsis, and methodsynopsis Accepted without objection. Action: Norm to implement. Meeting adjourned at 13:59 by the chair. [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200105/msg00009.html [2] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200106/msg00059.html [4] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=384107&group_id=21935&func=browse [5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200106/msg00049.html