MEETING MINUTES -- 20 December 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

["Larsen, Seraphim L" <seraphim.l.larsen@intel.com>]

MEETING MINUTES -- 20 December 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
(Minutes taken by Seraphim Larsen <seraphim.l.larsen@intel.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 have quorum (14/21)
    - There were several attendees from various companies who
      attended to hear Andrzej Zydron's presentation on DITA and
      translation, including:
        - Vladimir Leonov, Lucent Technologies
        - James C. Hall, Lucent Technologies
        - Michael Kuperstein, Intel Corp

- Review/approve minutes from previous meeting:
    - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200512/msg00013.html
(Dec 13)
    - Don moves to accept the minutes as read, JoAnn Hackos seconds,
      approved by acclamation

- Special topic:
    - Andrzej Zydron on DITA and translation
        - Three presentations:
            - Compatability of DITA Design Priciples Regarding
              Localization
                -
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15986/Com
patability%20of%20DITA%20Design%20Priciples%20Regarding%20Localization.p
df
            - DITA Best Practices
                -
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15988/DIT
A%20Best%20Practices.pdf
            - DITA and XML
                -
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15987/DIT
A%20and%20xml.pdf

    - Don -- Does anyone want to take on the list of inline elements
      presented in the Compatibility presentation?
        - Chris Wong volunteered to take a look at that.  *** ACTION
            - Some discussion of inline elements ensued.

- Next meeting will be January 3rd -- Andrzej may continue
  presentation at that meeting.
    - If you have questions for Andrzej, please post them to the
      list.

- No time for anything else!  The following material was not
  covered.


- Review "left off the list" and unnumbered proposals for 1.1 scope:
    - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200512/msg00010.html


-------------------------------------
This section tracks changes as decisions/approvals are made.

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
  -      Naming convention
  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200509/msg00024.html
(approved 2005-09-30)
  -      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)
  - #38: Add book-level processing to DITA based upon revised bookmap
demo
  - #32: Domain and topic integration

-------------------------------------


- Submitted:
(defer to 12/20)
  - #8: Allow tm to contain images or logo content (postpone this for 2
weeks, per Kravogel)
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15055/IssueNumber08_.h
tm
  - #5 Add ANSI warning labels as addition to element
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15057/IssueNumber5-haz
.htm
  - # 4 Use subset of OASIS xNAL standard for addresses
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15112/IssueNumber4.htm

(resume here for 12/13)
  - #19 Introduce new, more general task type
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15058/IssueNumber19-ta
sk.htm
  - # 6 Make @role (and other enumerated attribues) unenumerated
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15115/IssueNumber06.ht
ml
  - #17a Conref - improved specialization support
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15116/IssueNumber17a.h
tml
  - #17b Conref - with delta (applying changes)
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15117/IssueNumber17b.h
tml
  - #17c Conref - referencing a range of elements
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15118/IssueNumber17c.h
tml
  - #17d Conref and conditional processing - preserve without resolving
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15119/IssueNumber17d.h
tml
  - #17e Conref - push instead of pull
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15120/IssueNumber17e.h
tml
  - #42 shortdesc flexibility (includes #41)
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15121/IssueNumber42.ht
ml
  - #43 Semantic (implicit) linking
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15122/IssueNumber43.ht
ml
  - #35 Support foreign content vocabularies such as MathML and SVG
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15123/IssueNumber35.ht
ml
  - #14 Specialize glossary entry and definition elements
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15140/Issue14.html
  - #2 Keywords in keywords
 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15522/IssueNumber02.ht
ml
  - #00 Nested Sections Solution Proposal
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200511/msg00084.html


- In progress:
  - #47 Structured Sections (replaced by "Nested sections proposed
compromise")
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200511/msg00067.html


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


- Post 1.1: everything else

See http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200512/msg00010.html


8:50-8:55 Announcements/Opens

8:55 Adjourn 


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