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Subject: DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 5 September 2006
Best Regards, Gershon --- Gershon L Joseph Member, OASIS DITA and DocBook Technical Committees Director of Technology and Single Sourcing Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd. office: +972-8-974-1569 mobile: +972-57-314-1170 http://www.tech-tav.com
DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 5 September 2006
(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)
The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 5 September 2006 at 08:00am PT
for 45 minutes.
1. Roll call
We have quorum.
2. Approve minutes from previous meeting.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200608/msg00133.html (22 August)
Accepted by acclamation (moved by Don, seconded by Michael)
* Note: Last week's meeting did not have quorum, therefore was not a regular
business meeting. Minutes for the discussion are at:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200608/msg00140.html
3. Business:
1. ITEM: vote on updated indexing proposal (Michael Priestley)
* http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Indexing_issue_summary (proposal)
Michael moves to accept the amendment (section "Proposal for index
ranges as of 2006/09/05" in the above document. Paul G seconds.
Text copied here so it's recorded:
Index entries are interpreted as point references. The index contains
a reference to the point where the index entry is declared. If an
index entry occurs in a topic prolog, the reference is to the start of
the title of the topic.
Index ranges are structural. Most index range declarations refer to an
entire topic or set of topics. The only exception is a range contained
entirely within the body of a topic. The start of a range is indicated
with an indexterm with a start attribute. The end of a range is
indicated with an indexterm with an end attribute with a matching value,
and with no content of its own.
Index range indications may occur in the topicmeta of a topicref at
the map level, in the prolog of a topic, or in the body of a topic,
and are interpreted as follows:
* In a map, the start range points to the topic title of the topic
being referenced by its containing topicref. The end range points
to the end of the final child contained by the topic being
referenced by its containing topicref. When a start and end range
occur in the same topicmeta, the range applies to the containing
topicref and its children.
* In a prolog, the start range points to the containing topic's title.
The range ends with a matching index range end in the same prolog,
or the end of the prolog, whichever comes first. The range applies
to the containing topic and all its children, including child
relationships defined in a map.
* In a body, the start range points to whichever point the indexterm
occurs. The index range ends at a matching index range end
indication within the same body, or at the end of the body,
whichever comes first. Such an index range does not span
sub-topics of the topic.
When index ranges with the same identifier overlap (for example, a
body-level range for "pecorino" occurs within a map-level cross-topic
range for "pecorino") the widest range applies, and end ranges are
matched with start ranges by last-in-first-out. In other words, the
ranges are interpreted as nested rather than overlapping, with the
highest-level container taking precedence over narrower contained
ranges.
The start and end attributes are defined as CDATA, and should contain
matching strings. The strings should not contain blank spaces. The
start and end attributes should be considered valid only on indexterm
elements that have no child indexterm elements.
2. ITEM: Request for SC approval: DITA for machine industry (Chris Kravogel)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200608/msg00141.html (materials for approval)
Chris presented the purpose of the SC.
Discussions...
Don moves to accept the proposal for a machine industry sub-committee
based on the materials Chris provided. Michael seconds. No objections.
DECISION to form Machine industry subcommittee.
3. ITEM: TC response to new OASIS discussion List, Unstructured Operation
Markup
* email to Members by Jamie Bryce Clark, 8/11/2006
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200608/msg00003.html
ACTION: Don to respond to Jamie stating we have no objections to this
new committee.
4. ITEM: Translation SC: Indexing best practices
* http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-translation/download.php/19985/Best%20Practice%20for%20Indexing%20DITA%20topics.doc
CONTINUED. Discussion deferred to next week.
ACTION: Gershon to discuss Paul G's feedback at next week's Translation
SC meeting.
5. Request: Need a volunteer interested in a visible accomplishment to
help come up with DITA processing that imitates the style of the OASIS
templates at http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/.
Anyone who can help on this task please contact Gershon directly.
4. Announcements/Opens
Chris K asked when we expect to have DITA 1.1 approved. Currently looks
like it'll be pushed out into early 2007. Our official position is for
release in Q1 2007.
Discussed update of drafts with index and other updates.
-- Meeting adjourned at 08:45 --
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