MEETING MINUTES -- 21 March 2006 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

["Gershon L Joseph" <gershon@tech-tav.com>]

Best Regards,
Gershon

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MEETING MINUTES -- 21 March 2006 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
(Minutes taken by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)

Date:  Tuesday, 21 March 2006
Time:  08:00am - 09:00am PT

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

Resources for this meeting:
- DITA Wiki home page:
    http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/

Roll call --> We have quorum

Review/approve minutes from previous meeting:
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200603/msg00051.html (14 March 2006)
- Fix mis-spelling of Chris Kravogel's name
- Don moves to accept the minutes as read with above change, Sharon seconds, 
    no objections, approved and accepted by acclamation.

Business:

- Resume review of Indexing proposals (Chris Wong)
    (updates: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200603/msg00055.html)
    - See/See Also (review updates): 
      http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/17291/IssueNumber45.html
    - Sort Order (review updates):
      http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/17290/IssueNumber45a.html
    - Page Range Indexing (needs vote):
      http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/17289/IssueNumber45b.html
        - Chris -- start page range should generate index entry, but end page 
	    range should not.
	- Michael -- when outputting to formats for which page numbers are not 
	    relevant (e.g. HTML), ignore the page range elements.
	--ACTION ITEM-- Chris to add implementation section to the end of the 
	    proposal that recommends behavior for various output formats.
	DISCUSSION -- Need to make it clear that <indexterm>xxx<index-range-start/>
	    </indexterm> identifies a link in HTML output, whereas <indexterm>xxx
	    <index-range-end/></indexterm> is ignored (no link is generated 
	    for online output)
            - Don -- What if <index-range-end> occurs before <index-range-start>?
            - Chris -- Spec does not cater for that.
	DISCUSSION...
	- Michael moves to accept proposal with above comments, Rob Frankland 
	    seconds, no objections, approved by acclamation.

- Review #35 "unknown" element design--foreign content vocabularies such as 
    SVG, MathML (ErikH, EricS);
    http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/15123/IssueNumber35.html
    http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/unknown (back level)
    - Erik sent out addendum via email, proposal not updated yet.
    - Erik presented the proposal (including addendum)
    - Don -- How does <unknown> fit in with <object>?
    - Erik -- We need both. They are complimentary.
    DISCUSSION... Various issues raised, which Erik will address this week. If
       anyone has more comments on the proposal, please email to list.

--Meeting adjourned--

- Review #20 metadata proposal (Michael Priestley)
  * http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/17318/IssueNumber20.html
  * http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/17131/issue20.zip 


Time permitting:

 * Discuss [http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200603/msg00009.html Glossary submission] for book theme
  * addendum: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200603/msg00058.html

 * Prescod questions on the list:
  * [http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200602/msg00081.html  and ]
  * [http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200602/msg00080.html /@name]
  * [http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200602/msg00075.html Navtitle and locktitle]


Next week:
 * Bookmap