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Subject: MEETING MINUTES -- 07 November 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE


MEETING MINUTES -- 08 November 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
(Minutes taken by Bruce Esrig <esrig@lucent.com>)

DITA Technical Committee website:
    - Public:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita
    - Members only: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/

- Roll call
    - We do not have quorum today

Summarize minutes from previous meeting:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200511/msg00004.html

- Remaining proposal write-ups submitted by Nov 14th
- All design-level writeups must be in by Dec 5th

New issues:
Discuss how to resolve various section proposals (from email discussions)

- Add keyword nesting to list of issues (Michael Priestley, Robert Anderson
to write up).
  Use case: a fancy application of conref. Product name needs to change
consistently.
  Want compound strings. Prod name for Platform (two separate conrefs).
  Need a keyword entity because of contexts that it can appear in.
  Nested (specialized) keyword turns out to be a convenient means.

- Schedule for 1.1

  Proposal:
     o Six meetings on design by end of February. (Note: W3C uses
"candidate recommendation" upon completion of design. The end of February
would be a time when vendors could begin to implement, test, and offer
feedback.)
     o Two rounds of draft writing to integrate design and perform updates.
     o Target submission of draft specification for public review at
beginning of June 2006.
     o Expect completion of approval process by September 2006.

- Staging DTD updates (DITA 1.0.1)

  Could be a Committee Draft or non-normative errata. (Mary McRae,
communication to Don Day). The Technical Committee has already approved the
release of the fixes.

One more bug fix in the DITA toolkit: public ID for tables should state
"DITA Exchange Table Model" according to tblDecl.mod, but uses of the ID
(e.g. in catalog-dita.txt) wrongly say "DITA CALS Tables". Risk is to those
who created a catalog using the old name.

Better for users if the bug fix is released. Will be uploaded, will get TC
approval next week to announce that the bug fix is available.

- What to include in a design template (Don Day will post by Monday):
     Formal description of feature covering language and architectural
impacts that can be pasted into the specifications.
     Reference behavior for implementers to match. May include fragments of
pseudocode or process description.

** END OF DISCUSSION FOR TODAY'S LIMITED SCOPE **

Issues tracking:
- Features list
- Definition of Status Phases:
  - In Progress:  Author(s) still working on proposal
  - Submitted:  Proposal has been submitted to TC for consideration;
    needs TC decision (vote) in order to proceed.
  - Proposal Approved:  TC has approved the proposal; authors working to
    complete the design
  - Design Approved:  Final design of the proposal has been approved.
  - Postponed:  Proposal has been postponed to post-1.1.

- Design Approved:
  - # 9 New DATA element
  - #12 Make universal attributes completely universal

- Proposal Approved:
  - #20 Extensible metadata attributes
  - #11 Create elements for text attributes with translatable text
  - #40 Keyref architecture
  - #23 Embed version numbers into catalogs
  - #45 Add See, See Also indexing elements
  - #45a Add sort order indexing elements
  - #45b Add page range indexing elements
  - #34: Constraints - restriction without specialization

- Submitted:
  - #47 Structured Sections
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/14824/IssueNumber47.html

  - #32: Domain and topic integration
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00048.html
  - #8: Allow tm to contain images or logo content
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15055/IssueNumber08_.htm

  - #38: Bookmap / bkinfo revision
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15056/IssueNumber38.htm

  - #5 Add ANSI warning labels as addition to element
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15057/IssueNumber5-haz.htm

  - #19 Introduce new, more general task type
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15058/IssueNumber19-task.htm

  - # 4 Use subset of OASIS xNAL standard for addresses
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15112/IssueNumber4.htm

  - # 6 Make @role (and other enumerated attribues) unenumerated
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15115/IssueNumber06.html

  - #17a Conref - improved specialization support
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15116/IssueNumber17a.html

  - #17b Conref - with delta (applying changes)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15117/IssueNumber17b.html

  - #17c Conref - referencing a range of elements
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15118/IssueNumber17c.html

  - #17d Conref and conditional processing - preserve without resolving
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15119/IssueNumber17d.html

  - #17e Conref - push instead of pull
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15120/IssueNumber17e.html

  - #42 shortdesc flexibility (includes #41)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15121/IssueNumber42.html

  - #43 Semantic (implicit) linking
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15122/IssueNumber43.html

  - #35 Support foreign content vocabularies such as MathML and SVG
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15123/IssueNumber35.html



- In progress:
  - #14 Specialize glossary entry and definition elements

- Postponed to Post 1.1:
- #37 Reconciling topic and elements

- Post 1.1: everything else

Spec and process issues (from Yas's notes, other comments):
Update DITA 1.0 DTD/Schema specification (bug fixes and comment edits)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200507/msg00058.html among others

Naming convention
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200509/msg00024.html (approved
2005-09-30)

OASIS artifact naming guidelines (to follow where applicable)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200507/maillist.html

Relax the related links content model so it can be empty (more of a fix
issue)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200509/msg00050.html  (proposal)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/14855/TC-Meeting-Minutes-04-October-2005.txt
  (approved for 1.1 timing)

Documenting DITA design principles (not approved yet)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00005.html

Details in the DITA spec--Priestley ("There are some cases...
where the spec needs to be updated")
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00059.html
- behavior of conref with attributes on the referencing element
- why a content fragment has to be addressed within a topic

Styling options for conditional text
Recognizing DITA documents


New worked proposals (unnumbered) from members:
Extensibility of DITA through new attributes
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200508/msg00065.html
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200508/msg00069.html  and
following

Styling Options for Conditional Text
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200508/msg00066.html  and
following
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200509/msg00025.html

Recognizing DITA Documents
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200508/msg00067.html  and
following

Start of documenting DITA design principles (Paul Prescod)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00005.html

Module Registry proposal (Bruce Esrig)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00097.html


Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
Phone: +1 512-838-8550
T/L: 678-8550

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
   --T.S. Eliot



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