DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 16 December 2015

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 16 December 2015
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday,
16 December 2015 at 2:00pm ET.


1. Roll call

Present: Scott Hamilton, Larry Rowland,
Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh

Regrets: Jirka Kosek

Absent: Dick Hamilton


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

3. Next meeting: 20 January 2016

4. Review of the agenda.

5. Review of open action items

   a. Norm to review the non-normative XML Schema version of 5.1
      to make sure it has all the latest changes.
      CONTINUED


6.  Publisher's and eLearning subcommittee reports

Nothing to report.

7.  XInclude 1.1 status.

Norm says there are now two implementations, and he will pursue
getting W3C to finalize it.

8.  DocBook 5.1 release

It is in OASIS, and we expect it to go to vote in January, then
we have to make sure enough members vote for it.

9.  Review of Requests for Enhancement

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

      https://sourceforge.net/p/docbook/rfes/300/

    RFEs to revisit for 6.0

    247   1907003  biblioid content model too broad

   RFEs under discussion

   Ticket  Tracker
    260   2820947  Ability to transclude text
    273   3035565  Allow sections at any level
    291   3491860  license tag  (hold for 5.2)
    306            Allow Block Elements inside abstract

    Github Issues
    6              Add buildtarget element
    7              Allow revnumber inline.

Norm described a new RFE intended for the release after 5.1 to
support multiple images in source sets.


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[1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201511/msg00005.html

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Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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