DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 June 2006

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

Hi all,

Here are the minutes from this week's TC meeting. I apologize for taking so
long to get them out. This week's been even more hectic than usual...

Best Regards,
Gershon

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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 June 2006

(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)

The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 20 June 2006 at 08:00am PT
for 40 minutes.

Don was unable to participate, so Gershon led the meeting.

1.  Roll call
    We have quorum.
    Regrets: Don Day

2.  Accepted minutes from previous meeting:
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18723/DitaTCMeeting060613.txt
    Moved by Gershon, seconded by Robert Anderson, no objections.

3. Business:

    1.  Review outstanding action items:

        No new items last week. Review remaining feature signups for agenda

    2.  ITEM: Feature signup actions--assess the work required to update the 
        spec for new features: 

         * Done:
           * Bookmap - Robert
           * Graphics - Paul Grosso (sent impact assessment previously)
           * Glossary = Erik Hennum
           * metadata - Michael
           * universal - Robert

         * Pending:
           * Shortdesc - Michael
           * Index - Chris Wong
           * data element - Erik Hennum (erik hennum)
           * Foreign content - Eric Sirois
             by end of week.
           * Translation - Gershon
           * Editing bugs - Michael
           * DTD/Schema bugs (Robert)
             only outputclass change still needs to be done.

    3.  ITEM: Design cleanup issues:

        1.  Alternate bookmap numbering schemes (Poston)
            http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200606/msg00059.html
            Paul P - Anyone need other numbering schemes? Little response on list.
            Please list numbering schemes you may need on the list.
            Bruce Esrig - We currently have 2 -- book number (label), part-number
            Paul proposes to allow more than one bookpartnumber
            Bruce -- Can we specialize so bookpartnumber contains elements, 
                not only CDATA?
            Discussion...
            ACTION -- Bruce Esrig to pose suggestion on mailing list and we'll 
                discuss further next week.

    2.  Wrapup of bookmap content model discussions (front/back matter divs, 
        multi-appendexes, glossary)
        Robert: Sent out revised content models today.
        http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200606/msg00074.html
        Robert moves to accept the changes as noted in this morning's email, 
        Scott Hudson seconds, no objections.
        DECISION -- Update bookmap content model as stated in Robert's email.

    3.  Renaming of data-subject to data-about (Esrig, Hennum)
        http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200606/msg00072.html
        Bruce Esrig descirbed his comments: change the name of the 
            dita-subject element to dita-about.
        Robert - You can include reference to external object and assert that 
            this DITA element relates to that element.
        Bruce moves to rename the element. Erik seconds.
        DECISION -- Rename <data-subject> to <data-about>.

4.  Open

    Gershon noted the list discussion about outputclass usage and the name of
    the attribute not accurately reflecting its indended use.
    FUTURE FEATURE -- action for future release: rename outputclass to a 
    more meaningful name that reflects its purpose (role?)

Meeting adjourned at 8:40.