Agenda: DocBook TC Meeting: 19 Jun 2001

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting: 19 Jun 2001
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The DocBook Technical Committee has a one hour teleconference at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+) on
Tuesday, 19 Jun 2001.

The teleconference phone number is 888.296.1938. The participant code
is 586310.  Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members of
the committee.

Agenda
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1. Roll call

2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting

3. Review of the agenda

4. Review of open action items

   a. Norm to clarify status of EBNF, MathML, and HTML Forms modules
   b. Norm to add class='newsgroup' to systemitem
   c. Norm to write concrete proposal for <co> in inlines that can
      occur in screen
   d. Norm to write a concrete proposal for linking in DocBook 5.0
   e. Norm to move open RFEs to SourceForge
   f. Norm to publish closed RFEs as a static page for historical reference
   g. M. Sabrio to investigate what elements his group would like
      to put metadata on
   h. Norm to propose new "name and address" markup
   i. Dennis to ask local help author for information on help topic
      authoring
   j. Norm to add section.class parameter entity
   k. Norm to post note about expanding the content model of filename
      and certain other inlines to the list.
   l. Norm to publish a version of the Simplified DocBook DTD as an
      official test release.

5. Expanding the content model of filename and certain other inlines

   Action, Command, Database, Filename, Hardware, Interface, KeyCap,
   Literal, Option, Parameter, Property, and SystemItem.

6. Adapting DocBook for more topic-oriented manuals

7. Content model issues relating to lists and procedures.

8. Any other business

9. Review of Requests for Enhancement (RFEs)

   412476 Class on ProductName should be #IMPLIED
   413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME
   416478 FigureGroup tag
   417671 add section element to refentry
   423598 Content models that allow BridgeHead
   424577 Make refsection parallel to section
   425730 Create an SVG module
   426382 Allow SimpleSect inside Section
   431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability
   431412 RFE 113: proc. exp. of RevHistory order
   431413 RFE 121: add markup for signals
   431415 RFE 124: add markup for host identifiers
   431417 RFE 126: allow SimpleSect in Section
   431418 RFE 128: typing and linking in funcdef
   431419 RFE 130: markup protocol, FS type, part.
   ?????? Add language attribute to fieldsynopsis et al.

[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200105/msg00009.html

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | Nothing ever gets anywhere. The
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | earth keeps turning round and gets
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | nowhere. The moment is the only
                                   | thing that counts.--Jean Cocteau