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------------------------------------------------------- OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes Tuesday, 3 March 2009 ------------------------------------------------------- Minutes recorded by Kristen James Eberlein. 1. ROLL CALL Quorum is present. 2. Approve minutes from previous business meetings: * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00046.html (24 Feb 2009) Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Robert Frankland; motion carried by acclamation. 3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS * OASIS DITA for Enterprise Business Documents Subcommittee Anne Rockley reported on the work of the subcommittee. The subcommittee decided to split work into four categories: *Aggregation: Their audience requires a document-centric paradigm; structure is more important than reuse. *Infotype simplification: Should there be further simplification to meet the needs of the business community? *Specialization: Are there existing specializations or are there core building blocks that need to be added to DITA to meet the needs of the business community? *Metada: Current metadata is tech-comm oriented and not useful for the business community. What can be reused? What will the business community need? The subcommittee has put together a working paper; they will post it later today. Don Day suggested that a peer review be conducted by members of the DITA TC. Action: Subcommittee to send an invitation to members of the TC for a peer review of the working document. Several committee members expressed interest. * OASIS DITA Help Subcommittee Stan Doherty reported that there was one week left during the review cycle. He encouraged people who have not provided input to do so. * OASIS DITA Adoption Committee Scheduled for next week. 4. # ITEM: Behavior of q element * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00005.html and following (Anderson) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00026.html (Anderson follow up) Robert Anderson reported that he had met with Don Day and IBM representatives; the HTML committee has decided that quotation marks should be rendered by style sheets. He suggests that the DITA specification should recommend that authors do not add quotation marks; style sheets or other mechanisms should render the marks. Action: Robert to summarize this matter and sent it to the TC. 5. New ITEM: Data types and default values * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00000.html (Anderson) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00017.html (Grosso's recommendation) No new issues; should have been listed as closed. But there are open action items associated with this item. Actions: 1) Michael Priestley will send e-mail to Gershon, presenting background on this issue. 2) Gershon will take this item to the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee, ask them to open discussion with OASIS about ways to make specification commentable. 3) People should give suggestions of non-normative sites to Robert Anderson(via e-mail). 6. New ITEM: Cross-references to Topicheads and Implicit Title-only Topics * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00039.html (Eliot, others) Since Elliot Kimber was not present, this item was deferred to the following week. 7. New ITEM: Keys and keyref - URI syntax * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00007.html (Anderson) * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00019.html (Grosso) Robert Anderson reported that this hinges on what characters should be allowed in keys. Michael Priestley stated that the only limitation that he was aware of was that keys should not contain spaces. Discussion ensued about where keys appear. Robert also stated that the slash character must be avoided, since it is a delimiter in conref. Paul Grosso suggested that we avoid mentioning URIs. (Item closed for new agendas.) Actions: 1) Robert will send e-mail to Gershon with a summary of how he thinks the TC will state the issue. 2) Gershon will take the information to the Adoption Committee. 8. ITEM: OASIS hosting of Subversion for content control Stan Doherty reported that he could help people set up client applications, but he is not close enough to the content to make recommendations. Gershon can make some recommendations, but he does not know exactly what we can do with the Web access. Action: Gershon to play with Web access, put in some language spec files. Stan will try some clients. Return to this item next week. 9. ITEM: review Master Topic List--Gershon * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00034.html (latest spreadsheet) Nancy could not find the source topics. Gershon clarified that she should be looking for DITA 1.1 topics. She will get back to Gershon in a day or two. People who have taken ownership of topics should go ahead and work on them; reconvene on this agenda item in two weeks time. Send any updated topics to Gershon. He hopes to get content in Subversion shortly. Action: After Gershon gets topics from Nancy, he will update the spreadsheet and ask for additional volunteers. 10. Off-line discussion on stylistic issues Several people have participated in an off-line discussion of editorial issues, for example: Do we mark element names with brackets? Do we mention the element name? Action: Gershon will send an invitation for people interested in stylistic issues. He will start a Wiki page that will be the start of the writing guidelines. Will send note to the list. Add this to the agenda for next week. People can subscribe to the page. 11. New ITEM: Allowing appendices to be grouped http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00047.html (Grosso, and following) Need to be able to put a heading in the TOC to group the appendices. Don Day wondered whether something like a specialized book list would work. Robert stated that he thought a specialized element for grouping appendices would be most fruitful. Continue discussion on the list; try for roll-up next week. Gershon suggested that we vote on an exception and include this in DITA 1.2. Meeting adjourned. -- Kristen Eberlein The document named DITA TC meeting,3 March 2009 (DITA_TC_meeting_03_March_2009.txt) has been submitted by Kristen Eberlein to the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC document repository. Document Description: View Document Details: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=31604 Download Document: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/31604/DITA_TC_meeting_03_March_2009.txt PLEASE NOTE: If the above links do not work for you, your email application may be breaking the link into two pieces. You may be able to copy and paste the entire link address into the address field of your web browser. -OASIS Open Administration
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