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Subject: DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 12 February 2008
Gershon L Joseph Director of Technology and Single Sourcing Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd. Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Secretary, OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee Member, OASIS DocBook Technical Committee +972-8-974-1569 (direct) +972-57-314-1170 (mobile) http://www.tech-tav.com
DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 12 February 2008
Chaired by Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>
Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>
The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 12 February 2008 at 08:00am PT for
60 minutes.
1. Roll call
We have quorum.
2. Approve minutes from previous business meeting:
* date : 5 February 2008
* URL : http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00016.html
Accepted by acclamation.
3. Business:
1. Previously posted Translation SC documents--ready for approval next week?
1. ITEM: Discussion of "Best Practice for Using the DITA Conref Attribute for Translation"
url : http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200710/msg00052.html
lead : Hackos
notes :
ACTION: Gershon to check with JoAnn for latest version of doc and
forward link to TC.
2. ITEM: Discussion of "Indexing Best Practice White Paper"
url : http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27049/IndexingBestPracticesWhitePaper.doc
lead : Hackos
notes : http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00009.html (Grosso)
ACTION: Gershon to check with joAnn re latest version and addressing
of Paul's message.
2. ITEM: Need Clarification on Implications of Different List Markup Patterns
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00011.html
(Kimber, no follow up)
Erik: Gershon asked is there a way to provide tighter topic DTDs by default
Discussion on whether the existing DTDs are really "bad"...
Michael: I don't want to say current topic types are useful only for
specialization, but I agree there's a need for tighter DTDs.
Jeff: Add text that some organizations may want to enforce enforce a
stricter content model than the default topic types, and they can use
the constraints mechanism to achieve that.
Don suggested we provide tutorial on how to specialize a DTD via
constraints for office memos.
Discussion...
Jeff encouraged Gershon/Eliot/etc to submit issues we want to raise in
the 1.3 spec.
Someone can take on the task of trying to find a spot where people can
submit DTDs/tutorials/samples/etc outside of the standards process but
where they could be shared.
Michael: That's what dita.xml.org is for.
ACTION: Gershon to add a placeholder for requirements (and later
specializations) for more constrained version of the DITA topics.
(Gershon noted he's under workload pressure and it will likely take him
a while to get to this AI.)
3. ITEM: Organization of the DITA Specification
1. OASIS on statements of use vs implementations
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00021.html
(Day)
Don mentioned that "statement of use" should be used instead of
"endorsement".
OASIS requires 3 uses or 3 organizations, as long as we provide 3.
Jeff: OASIS wants uses, and does not care if it's organizations or
implementations.
Michael stressed that we must get uses of new spec features.
2. Conformance and Feature Optionality/Flexibility
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00013.html
(Ogden and following)
Revisit next week. Continue on-list.
3. ITEM: Rethinking the DITA Reference Docs
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00014.html
(Kimber and following)
Revisit next week. Continue on-list.
4. Please continue discussion on the list about "Test Environment for SC business"
4. Announcements/Opens
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