DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minues: 21 April 2004 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 21 April 2004 at 05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, 02:30a India+) for 90 minutes. 1. Attendees: Steven Cogorno, Gary Cornelius, Adam Di Carlo, Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Nancy Harrison, Scott Hudson Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland, Robert Stayton, Norman Walsh Regrets: Gary Cornelius, Mark Johnson Absent: Michael Smith. 2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting 3. Next meeting: 19 May 2004. No conflicts. 4. Review of the agenda. No additions. 5. Review of open action items a. Mike to provide a better proposal for choicelist markup. CONTINUE. b. Mike to reconsider the annotation problem and post his thoughts. CONTINUE. c. Dick to examine the use of alt, possibly as part of the annotation discussion. CONTINUE: Dick and Larry to collaborate on this item. d. Norm to summarize the OASIS requirements document for the document management system and the ensuing discussion. CONTINUE. e. Norm to complete the reference pages for the new 4.3 elements on the docbook.org site. CONTINUE. f. Norm to publish these unofficial versions - RelaxNG XML version - RelaxNG compact syntax version - W3C XML Schema - flattened version of the XML DTD COMPLETED all but the flattened version. g. Norm to post a reference to the paper written with Sebastian Rahtz regarding TEI. CONTINUE. h. Norm to produce a draft spec of 5.0. CONTINUE. 6. OASIS document management system. No news. 7. DocBook V4.3 bug report: no catalog entry for HTML table module. This may trigger a version 4.3.1 DTD. Wait for one month to see if more bug reports released. 8. Where is new biblioref element permitted? %xref.char.class is smaller than %link.char.class Not sure why the allowed locations of xref and link are different. ACTION: Norm to investigate and propose where biblioref should be permitted. 9. Using textdata to generalize programlisting. The TC does not want to add another element for this purpose. They felt that programlisting and literallayout, possibly with role attribute, sufficiently satisfy the need. The TC will reconsider the element names for 5.0 to make them more general. 10. Request for canonical URIs for Docbook DTDs. [2] Norm says using OASIS as the canonical URIs is the right answer, but the current document management system and its non-stable URIs make that difficult. Perhaps use docbook.org instead? ACTION: Norm to ask Karl about creating stable OASIS URIs. 11. Review of Requests for Enhancement To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line): http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&;; group_id=21935&atid=384107&aid=XXXX 543064 JavaObject tag and 675024 form, script, applet support These two items were considered together. The TC felt adding DocBook elements to support HTML-only constructs is not a good design. They suggested using processing instructions or local extensions. REJECTED. 698026 cannot embed within Accepted in spirit, but not sure if super/subscript should be added to the smallcptr.class.mix parameter entity. ACTION: Norm to suggest how to implement this. 702185 add procedure as child of para Since para is a child of step, this request would end up permitting nested procedures, which should be handled with substeps, Also, the TC questions the original decision to permit lists in para at all, so did not feel compelled to add another even more complicated list structure. REJECTED. 711815 Tagging for subtler breaks or "pauses" within a chapter The TC did not see a sufficient need for this, and suggested using a bridgehead or processing instruction instead. REJECTED. 742373 Splitting Segmented List The TC felt this was a very specialized request, and would require significant changes to support it. The TC suggested using text entities, XIncludes, or even a variablelist to handle this need. REJECTED. 752632 Color control of CALS table element This is a duplicate of RFE 685511, which was rejected in October 2003. The TC suggested using a processing instruction or the HTML table model, available in version 4.3 of the DTD. REJECTED. 828720 'spacing' attr. for 'variablelist' ACCEPTED. Not sure when it will be released. 933955 Add subscript and superscript to Simplified. ACCEPTED. 541444 caption in mediaobjectco (Dick) ACTION: Dick to determine if this item is closed. 562343 element (Mark) ACCEPTED, created at the Feb 2004 meeting. 613293 Generalize programlisting (Steve) See agenda item #9 above. REJECTED The following RFEs are awaiting action items 413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME (Norm, generic linking) 431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability (Norm) 522552 Add title attribute to element (Mike, annotations) 565637 Associate non-inline image with link (Norm, generic linking) 574880 Add annotation element (Mike) 623524 (Re)Consider "choicelist" markup (Mike) The following RFEs are identified as V6.0 or later 531851 Remove inline person name elements 532088 Remove RevHistory from qandaentry - --- [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200403/msg00010.html [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200404/msg00032.html