DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 July 2005 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 20 July 2005 at 05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, 02:30a India+) for 50 minutes. The teleconference phone number is +1.865.524.6352. The participant code is 7386368. Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members (and prospective members) of the committee. Agenda 1. Roll call Present: Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Nancy Harrison, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh Regrets: Steve Cogorno, Scott Hudson, Mark Johnson, Absent: Adam Di Carlo, Gary Cornelius 2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. 3. Next meeting: 31 August 2005 Still agreed on this changed date for the next meeting. 4. Review of the agenda. Add item 10b: XIncludes in 5.0. 5. Review of open action items a. Norm to obtain OASIS namespace naming rules. COMPLETED. b. Norm to publish a version of the 5.0 spec before the next meeting. COMPLETED. c. Norm to publish 4.5 CR1. COMPLETED. 6. Any update on new OASIS attendance rules? No news. 7. Adopt DTD version 4.5 as Committee Specification. Moved and seconded to adopt the candidate release of DocBook 4.5 DTD as a Committee Specification. No objections. ACTION: Norm to start the OASIS process to make this a Commitee Specification. [Norm learned later that we should have been putting it up for public review before adopting it as a Committee Spec.] 8. OASIS Artifact Identification Requirements [2] (naming rules) Norm suggested that everyone read the draft spec and send comments to this mailing list: oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org 9. Norm's DocBook V5 draft specification [3] No comments on the draft so far. ACTION: Norm to publish the draft as "5.0 alpha spec" on the OASIS website and docbook.org. 10. simplesect issues Discussion of the usage of simplesect in content models. Curently any simplesect elements must be at the end of the section container, and may not be followed by other sibling sections that are not simplesect. Decided to experiment with allowing following siblings to be normal sections. ACTION: Norm will add it to a new test release of 5.0. 10b. XIncludes in 5.0. Jirka expressed the need for validation of a document before XIncludes are resolved, as well as after. This is particularly useful for editing software. We agreed that a document could not be considered fully valid unless the XIncludes are resolved, but that as a convenience it would be nice to validate before XIncludes are resolved. Norm said the content models can be changed to include XInclude elements. Jirka suggested that this be a separate schema with XInclude module, and that it be available in the standard DocBook schema distribution. It would not be a normative standard, but just a convenience for users. ACTION: Norm will add it to the new test release of 5.0. 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 1190435 Add rule tag 1190436 Add requirement tag 1194196 and No response to queries for additional information on the preceding three RFEs. ACTION: Bob to ask each of the requestors again. 1226523 abbrev/acronym expansion(amplification) The group felt that the new alt and annotation markup in V 5.0 satisfied this request. There are no plans to add them to version 4. 1237762 Allow para+ in formalpara The group felt that allowing multiple paras in formalpara would create confusion as to the boundary of the formalpara. Some felt the existing sidebar element should be used for that purpose. ACTION: Norm will follow up with the requestor for more use case information. Meeting adjourned at 5:50 EDT. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following RFEs are awaiting action items 413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME (Norm, generic linking) 431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability (Norm) 565637 Associate non-inline image with link (Norm, generic linking) 623524 (Re)Consider "choicelist" markup The following RFEs are identified as V5.0 or later 1097183 Allow Task as a sibling of sections 1084491 Add address, orgname, orgdiv to corpauthor, corpcredit, etc. 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/200506/msg00037.html [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/entity-resolution/200506/msg00016.html [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200506/msg00007.html Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net