DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 December 2005

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 December 2005
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 21 December 2005 at
05:00p EST (02:00p PST, 22:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 07:00JST+,
03:30a India+) for 90 minutes.

The teleconference phone number is +1.865.524.6352. The participant
code is 7386368. Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.

Agenda

1. Roll call
2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting, including
   Norm's amendment [2].
3. Next meeting: 18 January 2005
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

    a.  Norm to pursue the process of making DTD 4.5
        an OASIS standard.
    
    b.  The Java language has added java annotations, and Norm
        wondered how these would be marked up in a synopsis.
        The C# language also has annotations, Jirka pointed out.
    
        ACTION: Norm to investigate this issue some more.
    
    c.  Nancy to email info on XML address standard xNAL.
    
    d.  Jirka to write up the customization process for
        MathML and SVG support in DocBook 5.
    
    e.  Norm to write up a description of how authors
        should handle elements that have been dropped.
    
    f.  Norm to fix equation content model in 5.0.
    
    g.  Bob to post a list of default attributes in 4.x.
    

6.  Default attribute values in DocBook 5.
    Other DocBook 5 issues.

7.  DocBook and DITA interoperability session at 
    OASIS Symposium 2006, 9-12 May 2006, San Francisco. [3]

8. Review of Requests for Enhancement

    To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line):

      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&;;
      group_id=21935&atid=384107&aid=XXXX

      1306027  Support for annotations in synopsis elements  
      1358844  allow multiple imageobject in imageobjectco  
      1380477  Allow area to inherit from areaset  

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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200511/msg00022.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200512/msg00011.html
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net