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Subject: DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 27 November 2007
Apologies for my delay in getting this week's minutes out. End of month madness hit as usual. Gershon L Joseph Director of Technology and Single Sourcing Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd. Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Secretary, OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee Member, OASIS DocBook Technical Committee +972-8-974-1569 (direct) +972-57-314-1170 (mobile) http://www.tech-tav.com
DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 27 November 2007
Chaired by Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>
Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>
PENDING VOTES
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The following items will be voted upon at the next TC meeting:
None.
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The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 27 November 2007 at 08:00am PT for
60 minutes.
1. Roll call
We have quorum.
2. Approve minutes from previous business meeting:
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00043.html (20 Nov 2007)
Accepted by acclamation.
3. Business:
1. ITEM: Proposals for Design Approval vote:
1. #12026 - Enhance the Glossary specialization (Warburton, Hennum, et al.)
* http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26130/IssueGlossary12026.html
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00028.html (related update)
DECISION: The TC accepted proposal 12026 by acclamation.
2. ITEM: Review prepared proposals:
1. Check status of ITEM: #12007 - Indirect reference/keyref proposal (Ogden et al.)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200710/msg00053.html
Jeff: We have another call for this Thursday. Issues with scope and
order (or lack thereof) of the key definitions. I hope we'll figure
this out on the next call.
Revisit next week.
2. ITEM: #12011 - Generic Task Type (Houser)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00005.html
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00046.html (Houser update)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00044.html (Houser follow up)
Alan: I sent a message to the list about an hour ago that wraps up
the discussions between the interested people. The message proposed
content models that could be restricted to match the current content
models. I listed each one with the use cases it solves or
requirements it meets. We need the reaction of other TC members to
the email.
Alan walked the TC through the message.
Eliot asked why <cmd> is optional.
Alan: Some people have requested <step> without <cmd>.
Michael: Since we don't have PCDATA, you can't remove <cmd> or <step>
won't need to contain content.
Alan: The way we address the less semantically rich content model is
by adding <ol> and <ul> (later option in message)
The TC questioned the need for <itemgroup> and felt that <info>
should be useful for specializing.
Alan will take <itemgroup> back to DP for further discussion offline.
Gershon questioned the need for <discussion>. The TC discussed
possible use cases for it.
Gershon felt we have <context> and therefore no need for <discussion>.
Michael suggested it would be a lead-in to the steps (and admitted
this is an old style issue)). IBM had a request for a "step-intro".
It was mentioned that this would be useful when converting legacy
content.
Discussion on whether we should allow multiple <steps> in a task.
Discussion on the need to break a set of steps out (e.g. summarize
what you did in a tutorial) and marking this up with the current
content model.
Michael: It's worth noting that we're having this discussion because
the current task is too prescriptive, unlike the other base topic
types DITA provides. I see the point of having a loose basis from
which other users can specialize, but opening up the general task
model is an issue.
Eliot: There's a missing layer of general content models that
underline the base content models. It's not practical to consider
the current base types to be used for authoring directly, even
though users do use it.
Don asked to take this discussion back to the list. Don also
suggested creating a special interest group.
People who want to be on the call should send Alan an email listing
their available times.
ACTION: Alan to take this offline to a working group.
3. # ITEM #12047 - add convenience elements for composing maps that set attribute defaults (Hennum, Kimber, et al.)
* http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26129/IssueMapConveniences12047.html
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00028.html (related update)
Eric is not on the call, so move to next week.
4. # Updated ITEM #12035 - Generic collation element (Pickett)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00026.html
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00044.html (Pickett response to TC)
The TC discussed whether to accept Deborah Pickett's suggestion to
put this item off for 1.2.
Eliot questioned how users needing localization would survive in the
interim.
Gershon and Don mentioned DP's response that says users can specialize
to create the content model defined by proposal #12035.
Gershon suggested talking to DP since he's closer time-wise. Don
accepted the idea and requested Gershon asks the list for others who
may wish to participate.
ACTION: Gershon to contact DP to arrange an off-line phone meeting
and to notify others who may be interested in this proposal.
3. # ITEM: Discussion on Controlled values, #collection-type enumerations and glossaries
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00024.html (Pickett)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200711/msg00029.html (Hennum reply)
* any latest vendor input, per last week's request?
ACTION: Gershon to remind Eric to send email to list requesting vendor
input.
4. New proposals from the Machine Industry SC:
1. # New ITEM: #12024 - Hazard Statement Domain
* http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26163/IssueNumber12024.html
2. New ITEM: #12039 - Note
* http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26164/IssueNumber12039.html
Chris: This proposal is part of proposal #12011. It's a separate
proposal here only because the Machine Industry SC worked on it
separately. #12011 covers this. This item could be of interest to
all, but 12024 is specific to the MI. I'd rather keep this a separate
proposal to limit the scope of discussions on the proposals.
This proposal is covered in #12011.
3. New ITEM: #12040 - Machine Industry Task type
* http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26165/IssueNumber12040.html
Chris: This proposal is for domain specialization to align task
with S1000D, mainly in prereq parts. We could merge this with the
generic task-type proposal. Though this is a large proposal by itself.
The TC members were asked to review #12024 and #12040 and submit
comments to the list.
--Out of time. Meeting adjourned.--
5. Ongoing: Review of "Items for discussion" list in the Frontpage
* How much flexibility for specializers?
4. Announcements/Opens
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