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Minutes of the OASIS Lightweight DITA SC
Monday, 28 November 2016
Recorded by Keith Schengili-Roberts
In attendance: Don Day, Stanley Doherty,
Kristen Eberlein, Carlos Evia, Mark Giffin, Tim Grantham, Scott Hudson,
Michael Priestley, Keith Schengili-Roberts
Regrets: None.
Previous meeting’s minutes were approved
with suggested amendments by Tim Grantham.
==Status of Deliverables Roadmap==
Prior to this meeting, Michael sent out
an email outlining a roadmap on the status of deliverables.
Specialization architecture validation
work stream:
·
Draft document type update - Mark Giffin
·
Template-based specialization transformation
- Tim Grantham
·
Web service setup for testing - Don
Day
·
Domain testing - generating specializations
from templates - Jan Benedictus, Amber Swope
·
Update specialization architecture if
required - team discussion
Specification development work stream:
·
Outline - Carlos Evia
·
Authoring environment setup - Don Day
·
Create/review reuse with full spec for
element descriptions - Kris Eberlein
·
Complete topic specification - XML -
Carlos/Kris
·
Complete map specification - XML - Carlos/Kris
·
Complete specialization specification
- XML - Carlos/Kris
·
Add syntax for Markdown - Carlos Evia,
Mark Giffin
·
Add syntax for HTML5 - Carlos Evia,
Mark Giffin
·
Review specification before sharing
with main TC - team discussion
Discussion followed, and everyone was in
agreement that this outline and those assigned to it made sense.
==Status of TC Note==
Carlos had a call with Kris and they have
collaborated on this. Carlos also mentioned that he has created some examples
of the syntax calls to help illustrate how they would work. Carlos reported
that the status of the committee note is healthy and that a draft ought
to be ready by the end of this week.
Kris suggested that the draft version be
circulated among the members of the SC prior to submission to the TC. Kris
will make a first working draft from this available as of this Friday morning
(Dec 2nd) to Kavi and subsequently plans to hold a meeting the week after
to discuss with the other members of the SC.
Mark volunteered to write additional content
relating to specialization.
==Status of Specification==
The document will be called: “Introduction
to Lightweight DITA”, which will be a committee note.
Michael argued that it is too soon to have
a specification draft, so the idea will be that a committee note will be
the stepping stone towards something more formal. The committee note will
be sent to the TC when done. After it has been commented upon by the TC
members, corrections/changes made and then released to the public, work
can begin on a more formal specification.
==Status of Schema Generation==
Question from Michael: has anybody been
able to produce working DTDs from existing RNG?
Mark responded by saying that he is using
oXygen to render the existing RNG to a DTD. He is also working on some
open source code that would process this automatically from the command
line.
Tim mentioned a plug-in for the DITA-OT
that generates a DTD from the RNG, but that this may be more involved that
we need.
Tim also mentioned that the LwDITA RNG
follows the same structural conventions as the DITA 1.3 specification,
as Tim whittled the DITA 1.3 RNG down in order to produce the LwDITA RNG
files.
Kris asked whether a monolithic rather
than a modular approach may be preferable. Tim responded by saying that
his approach comes up with two modules, which may be preferable as the
second output allows for specializations.
Michael asked if we want to support multi-level
specialization in LwDITA? This question was punted as everyone agreed that
we should see what the survey results had to say on this issue. Michael
noted however that we seem to be moving from doing this, at least for v1.0
of LwDITA.
It was agreed that further discussion on
scheme generation for LwDITA would continue offline.
==Discussion of Poll Results==
Carlos sent out summary results of the
poll on October 31 to the members of the SC list.
There were 80 total participants, but note
that they were not required to answer all of the questions (i.e. responses
to individual questions were optional). Primarily responders were from
the Yahoo! DITA Users group, though there were a few people who came to
the survey via a tweet that had been sent out.
Some results from the poll:
- HTML as main output type was something
that people wanted
- Cross-silo content sharing is very important
- Markdown authoring is something a lot
of people are interested in; Carlos mentioned that when he talked about
Markdown-based DITA authoring at a recent conference much of the questions
he received centered on that subject.
- As for the responses to the question
“I do not plan to specialize DITA topics” 87% of the respondents said
“yes” This strongly suggests that the SC should aim to only include one
level of specialization. Michael suggested that for a 1.0 release that
this be the approach we take.
Carlos went on to note that the numbers
for some of the responses was small, but that on the whole he thought that
what we did get is good and representative. The answers to the poll are
things the SC should take account of going forward.
Carlos also noted that this information
is publicly available, and that people can comment/blog about it freely.
==Discussion of TC Review and How to Communicate
with TC==
Mark is currently on the TC and is representing
the interests of the SC for now. Carlos will start in this role beginning
in January 2017.
==Trip Report on tekom/DITA Europe/DITA-OT
Day==
General discussion by those who attended
these shows. Keith noted that tekom seemed to be much more open to the
idea of DITA than the previous year. Kris talked about her presentation
at DITA-OT day that talked about the possibility of founding a non-for-profit
organization for handling development work for such things as the DITA
standard and DITA-OT.
Meeting adjourned at 12:01pm EDT.
Cheers!
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Keith Schengili-Roberts
Market Researcher and DITA
Evangelist
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