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Subject: MEETING MINUTES -- 18 JAN 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES -- 18 Jan 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
*** Please see Action Items and Decision Summary at the end ***
** Agenda **
------------
1. Roll call
2. Review/approve minutes from 11 January
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200501/msg00040.html
3. List issues:
- namespace redux
- otherprops closure
- DTDArchVersion value
- related issue: public identifier DTD owner (change IBM to
OASIS?)
4. Specification status
- Spec
- DTDs/Schemas
- Language Ref
5. AOB?
** Minutes **
-------------
1. Roll call --
- We do have quorum; see separate email from Don Day for
details.
2. Review/approve minutes from 11 January
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200501/msg00040.html
- Minutes approved by acclamation.
3. List issues:
- namespace redux --
- Needs updates to DTDs and Schemas, to be discussed
offline
- otherprops closure --
- Proposal: See Message 40 from the January TC archives,
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200501/
msg00040.html
- Approved by acclamation
- DTDArchVersion value
- Clarification: We will use DITAArchVersion (replacing
DTDVersion) to track the DTD/schema version.
- Proposal: We will use 1.0.0 for the first deliverable.
- Approved by acclamation.
- related issue: public identifier DTD owner (change IBM to
OASIS?)
- Don to contact Mary Macrae to get the proper OASIS
string to put into public identifiers.
4. Specification status
- Spec
- Main things holding us up --
- Namespace
- Identifiers
- Michael is requesting that everyone review this week
by Friday, so he can provide a 1.0.0 spec draft to
vote on next Tuesday. Provide comments in plain text
- Don -- we have some outstanding issues, that
cannot be resolved till we meet next week.
- So, next week we will look at DTDs and namespace
issues. Michael will provide a final 1.0 draft to
the TC. We will then approve/disapprove the 1.0
draft at the subsequent meeting.
- DTDs/Schemas
- How to validate the DTDs?
- There are several tools for doing this
- Don and Eric will work on this.
- Language Ref
- Let's finish this topic on the List -- we will not be
able to make a decision now.
5. AOB?
** Summary of Decisions **
--------------------------
- Proposal approved: otherprops (see message archive --
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200501/
msg00040.html
- Proposal approved: We will use 1.0.0 for the DITAArchVersion
value for the first deliverable.
** Action Required **
---------------------
021 JoAnn Hackos, Michael Priestley -- Summarize the discussion
of substitution and post to the TC list. Still pending as
of 7/20/04. >>>11/30/04: Action: Michael Priestley to add
note to conref that people may substitute conref targets at
build time
022 Don, Michael -- Put together a "self-study" tutorial/demo,
as per JoAnn's comments regarding the DITA sessions. Still
pending as of 7/20/04.
040 Don -- Cull the past minutes and discussion list to create
an inventory of all the things we need to close on in order
to create the 1.0 spec. Create a list of these items and
post it in the Documents area of the website. >>> This will
be ongoing.
051 055 Don Day, 9/7/04 -- Take the discussion of @scale
attribute and related issues to the list (presentation
mechanisms). (merge with next...)
061 Don Day, 10/05/04 -- Reply to image align and tm notes in
dita-users. >>> Agenda item for 11/9/04. <<<11/30/04:
image align issue is a doc mistake, corrected in the
"dita132" toolkit version of Language Reference source.
062 Eric Sirois, 10/05/04 -- provide XSLT validation for
specialized schemas once developed (Indi recommends Jarno to
work with him)
063 All, 11/02/04, 11/09/04 -- Provide comments to Michael
Priestley on the draft -- provide comments to Michael ASAP.
Michael Priestley to incorporate comments into draft
specification; prepare new iteration for 11/16 meeting. >>>
11/30/04 in progress
068 Nancy Harrison to send summary of DocBook table
accessibility additions to TC list.
069 Don will provide a list of each of the modules that have
a revised pi.
070 Erik please put together proposal for Ns for dtds and
modules (if necessary) for Michael.
071 Otherprops: The section on conditional processing does not
give best practices for using this att. Specific additional
syntax. As C. Wong raised on the list: we don't have a std
to extend attribute. But we don't have specific syntax if we
add more then 1 attribute in there. Need for 1.0 or later?
Put this on the list for discussion.
072 All: take a look at the limit of spec topic. It's all new
content and in need of review.
073 EH to bring the namesapce discussion offline. Others to
include in discussion: Paul, Eliott, Bruce, Michael P., Eric
Sirois. >>> In progress, as of 1/18/05.
074 Everyone bring comments to Michael on what we already have.
>>> In progress, as of 1/18/05.
075 Don, 1/18/05 -- Contact Mary Macrae to get the proper OASIS
string to put into public identifiers.
076 All, 1/18/05 -- Review 1.0 draft of the spec and submit
comments to Michael Priestley by 1/21/05.
** Issues to be Resolved **
---------------------------
006 All -- Should DITA specialization mechanism be documented in
a separate specification in order to make it easier to use
in other XML applications that otherwise have no
relationship to topic-based writing? >>> Ongoing. >>>
11/30/04: - add to spec issues list
009 "Best Practices" document -- Let's put this on the agenda
for future discussion.
010 Relationship between DITA and other topic-based
architectures (such as S1000D) -- Need to incorporate this
into the "Best Practices" document.
011 All -- Revisit use of @scale on image (general treatment of
graphics, ie raster vs vector assumptions, etc.).
Compare/contrast with controls for the <object> element,
which in HTML subsumes the <img> element. >>> 11/30/04: see
Actions 051, 055 above.
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