DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 22 November 2004 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Monday, 22 Nov 2004 at 05:00p EST (02:00p PST, 22:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 07:00JST+, 03:30a India+) for 80 minutes. 1. Roll call Present: Gary Cornelius, Paul Grosso, Nancy Harrison, Scott Hudson, Mark Johnson, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh Regrets: Steven Cogorno, Dick Hamilton Absent: Adam Di Carlo 2. Accepting the corrected minutes[1] of the previous meeting. Accepted. 3. Next meeting: 15 December 2004. OK. 4. Review of the agenda. Mike added two new RFE's to item 11. 5. Review of open action items a. Mike to provide a better proposal for choicelist markup. Remove from action item list for now. b. Norm to write second draft charter. Continue. c. Norm to recast his example annotation implementation using the two element names (alt and annotation), and will restart a discussion on the list. Continue. d. Nancy will write up some text for accepting or rejecting requests, to be discussed at the next meeting. Completed. 6. Status of DTD version 4.4. [2] No feedback from the list since the CR2 release. The TC decided to test it with the DocBook test suite. ACTION: Norm to update the test suite with 4.4 features. ACTION: Mike to write up the test suite process. ACTION: Bob to review minutes to ensure new features are tested. OASIS has not yet reinstated Committee Specifications as an option for OASIS work. Still pending. 7. Consider removing sections 5 and 6 from the DTD specs. For version 4.4, Norm had already edited section 5 (which discussed 5.0) and removed section 6 (which discussed 6.0). 8. Annotation proposal (Mike). [1] [3] [4] Continued from previous meeting. Norm will complete his action item to update his sample site with the proposed elements. Will discuss at the December meeting. 9. Accessibility. [5] [6] Includes table accessibility. [7] Continued from previous meeting. Nancy asked if table accessibility can be improved with new DocBook elements or attributes? Most features can be provided by stylesheets. One feature that could not was row headers. The CALS table spec does not provide markup for row headers. Paul pointed out that DITA has proposed a rowhead attribute on a table element to indicate "firstcolumn" or "none". ACTION: Jirka will post this suggestion to the docbook list for discussion. 10. Discuss guidelines for accepting or rejecting requests. Continued from previous meeting. Nancy's email had not yet reached everyone, so this was postponed until the December meeting. 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 1055480 RFE: Make revnumber optional The Committee acknowledged that not all revisions are made under a system of revision numbering. ACCEPTED. Too late for 4.4, however. 1070770 Procedure in example The Committee accepted the premise, but expressed concern about putting an element that can have a title inside a formal element that has a title. Since the inner title is optional, it is the author's call. ACCEPTED. Too late for 4.4, however. 1070458 Allow colophon in article Much discussion about the role of a colophon, and why it might be needed for an article, and whether any other markup would suffice. The proposal was made to add colophon to the collection of elements that can appear at the end of an article. ACCEPTED, with Norm abstaining. Too late for 4.4, however. Meeting adjourned at 6:20pm ************************************************************** The following RFEs are awaiting action items 973446 Replace Footnote with Annotation 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 V5.0 or later 974285 Check floatstyle/float attributes 958393 remove default class value from productname 531851 Remove inline person name elements 532088 Remove RevHistory from qandaentry - --- [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200410/msg00025.html [2] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4CR2/ [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200406/msg00003.html [4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200406/msg00005.html [5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200408/msg00002.html [6] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200408/msg00003.html [7] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200410/msg00021.html Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net