MEETING MINUTES -- 4 April 2006 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

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

Best Regards,
Gershon

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MEETING MINUTES -- 4 April 2006 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
(Minutes taken by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)

Date:  Tuesday, 4 April 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/msg00076.html (28 March 2006)
- Don moves to accept the minutes as read, JoAnn seconds, no objections, 
    approved and accepted by acclamation.

Business:

    - Foreign element:
        - Michael has issue with naming it "foreign", since foreign is only one use-case, whereas 
            "unknown" is open to all use cases. foreign is a subset of unknown, pity to lock ourselves
            out of other use cases we know about
        - Paul P -- The use case in the proposal was an element for use with 
            foreign vocabularies. I prefer a different base class for an 
            element that contains DITA content. 
        - The default behavior for <requiredcleanup> is to suppress, while the 
            default behavior for <foreign> is to try to display the content 
            and only if the processor cannot render the content, give up and 
            raise an error.
        - Eric H -- Leave foreign as-is and allow other use cases to be specialized off foreign...
        - DISCUSSIONS...
        --ACTION-- Michael and Paul P to discuss on email list and Eric S to 
            document proposed inheritance hierarchy. Discuss further next week.

    New Business:

    - User Assistance invitation to participate
        http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200604/msg00000.html

    Regular Business:

    - Translation Subcommittee proposals for xml:lang and dir attributes
        http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200604/msg00002.html
        - Gershon -- Summarized the xml:lang proposal.
        - DISCUSSION on expected behavior of xml:lang for conref: read xml:lang 
            from document referred to by the conref. E.g., if pulling in a 
            paragraph from a French topic into an English topic, the processor 
            reads the xml:lang from the French document being brought in.
        - Don -- conref is separate from xml:lang.
        - DISCUSSION - xml:lang proposal requires updating of the conref spec.
        - Don -- move conref discussion to list.
        - Paul P -- Remove references to Unicode since it's not relevant to 
            this document.
        - Don moves to accept the xml:lang proposal with Paul's requested 
            change, Robert Anderson seconds, no objections. approved by 
            acclamation.

-- out of time; 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

    - Review #14a Simple Glossary Proposal (Erik Hennum)
        http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/17513/Issue14a.html

    - Review for ["Bookmap revision"] proposal (Don Day); Design Complete?
        - updated proposal:
        - HTML Help view of proposed DTD:
            http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/17522/new-bookmap-book.chm