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Subject: Groups - DITA TC minutes, 14 July 2009 (DITA_TC_meeting_14_July__2009.txt) uploaded


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      OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes
                Tuesday, 14 July 2009
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Minutes recorded by Kristen James Eberlein.


1. ROLL CALL
Present: Paul Grosso, Kristen Eberlein, Gershon Joseph, Rob Frankland,
JoAnn Hackos, Elliot Kimber, Chris Kravogel, Seth Park, Su-Laine Yeo,
Robert Anderson,  
Bruce Nevin, Michael Priestley, Darryl Tewes, Dana Spradley

Quorum is present.


2. APPROVE MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING
*  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00077.html (Park, 7
July 2009) (Seth Park, 7 July 2009) 
Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Bruce Nevin; motion carried by
acclamation.


3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
* OASIS Machine Industry Subcommittee 
Chris Kravogel reported on current work of the subcommittee. The SC is
meeting every two weeks and meeting on proposals for DITA 1.3:
* Technical data: Bases values and tolerances. Has a test DTD.
* Filtering attributes and conditional processing: More generic solution
that currently exists, which SC thinks is SW-centric
* Troubleshooting and diagnostics
* Spare parts


4. ANNOUNCEMENT
Robert Anderson has uploaded new DTDs; waiting for Eric Sirois to upload
new version of schemas.


5. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: Overall review and Jim Early's review
assignments
Officially closed review on June 30. Gershon sent out a request for new
reviewers to replace Jim Earley; 4-5 people responded. We now have
reviewers for all topics, although some specialization topics have only one
assigned reviewer. Because of the new reviewers, we need to revise
deadlines.


6. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: conref.dita
Seth Park posed several questions about the conref file on the e-mail
list:
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00102.html (Park)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00104.html (last in
thread)
Michael Priestley clarified the issue.


7. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: Archspec "linking" section
Seth Park posed questions about linking on the e-mail list:
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00106.html (Park)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00108.html
(Priestley)
Seth is proposing covering the material in three topics:
	1. ID attribute and its different roles
	2. Linking
	3. Implications of when a link is established, with related links to
topics on conref, keyref, href
Michael Priestley asked for additional clarification about the third
suggested topic.

Seth: Referencing. I am thinking of linking and referencing as two
different things. You establish a link and the behavior of the link is
contingent on a whole range of things: the element that contains the link,
the attribute that provides the link, the configuration of conaction if you
are using conref, the keyref mechanism. These are behaviours of the
reference once the link is established.

Michael: I tend to think of linking and referencing as synonomous, except
linking often is interpreted as explicithypertext linking -- behaviour
rather than  pure reference. Can see separating material into:
	1. IDs
	2. How to reference IDs, including syntax
	3. Processing implications (content reuse versus hyperlinking)

Gershon suggested that Seth ping Nancy Harrison about whether she would
like help about making these changes.

Kris requested that these discussions get recorded on the Wiki pages.


8. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: Conformance and interoperability
*
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200907/msg00079.html
(last in thread)
*
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200907/msg00080.html
(DocBook definition)

Discussion ensued about vocabulary, focusing on the current use of "design
patterns". 

Several alternatives were proposed and discussed:
	* syntactical and organizational requirements
	* implementation pattern
	* design specification
	* template
	* modularization design specification
	* implementation specification or implementation requirement

Eventually an agreement to use the term "coding specification" emerged.


9. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: Conformance statement
* Draft of conformance info:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200803/msg00028.html
* PDF of conformance info:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/27616/conformance1.2-jcoV2.pdf

The statement should be in the next draft. People should discuss the
statement on the e-mail list; it should be on the agenda for next week.

Action (14 July 2009)
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Kris Eberlein to upload the DITA file for the conformance statement to
Subversion and send it to the list for comments. 


9. ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION: Deadlines

Gershon suggested moving the schedule out two weeks. JoAnn Hackos and Kris
Eberlein expressed a concern that the revised deadlines need to be workable
for the Technical Content, Machine Industry, and Learning & Training
material for the architectural spec.

Chris Kravogel asked where the Machine Industry material would go; Kris
Eberlein stated that she had assumed (based on last week's minutes) that
the Machine Industry material be part of the Technical Content
documentation. Chris Kravogel stated that he thought that made sense.

Gershon decided to move the deadline discussion offline. JoAnn Hackos
suggested scheduling a meeting to discuss Technical Content and Learning &
Training content.


10. MEANINGFUL VALUES FOR TYPE= ON XREF AND TOPICREF

Gershon suggested:
    * Moving the @type syntax to DITA 1.3
    * Cleaning up the current @type description in the DITA 1.2
specification
Agreed

Action (14 July 2009)
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1) Gershon Joseph to add this item (Meaningful Values for type= on xref and
topicref) to the DITA 1.3 Wiki page
2) Elliot Kimber to suggest changes to the Language Reference, based on the
"Meaningful Values for type= on xref and topicref" discussion.


Meeting adjourned.


 -- Kristen Eberlein

The document named DITA TC minutes, 14 July 2009
(DITA_TC_meeting_14_July__2009.txt) has been submitted by Kristen Eberlein
to the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC document
repository.

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