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Subject: DITA TC minutes, 4 August 2009
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OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
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Recorded by Rob Frankland
8:00-8:05 Roll call (Regrets Eberlein, Gershon, Need scribe for today.)
Quorum today
Approve minutes from previous business meetings:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200908/msg00028.html (4
August 2009, Eberlein)
Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Seth Park; motion carried by
acclamation.
Subcommittee/liaison reports (as needed)
* OASIS DITA Adoption TC
* OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee
* OASIS DITA Learning Content Subcommittee
* OASIS DITA Machine Industry Subcommittee
* OASIS DITA Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee
* OASIS DITA for Enterprise Business Documents Subcommittee
* OASIS DITA Help Subcommittee (Stan Doherty)
* OASIS DITA Pharmaceutical Content Subcommittee
* OASIS DITA Technical Communication SC
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DITA Mashup SC (pending) Seth - Building charter - on agenda next
week - change name to Dita and Composite environments
*
DITA for the Web 2.0 (pending)
*
OASIS DITA for Technical Standards Subcommittee (inactive)
Business: Continue first focus on architectural specification
1. ITEM: DITA specifications
* Spreadsheet and all topics located in Subversion repository
* Information about contributors, deadlines, editorial
guidelines, Subversion clients, and more:
o
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_1.2_specifications:_Authoring_and_editorial_guidelines
* Business:
1. Progress of first review
2. REVISIT: Conformance statement:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200907/msg00123.html
o Gershon updated DITA topic in SVN on 4-AUG and
requested TC to review it
o Keywords are now marked up using <keyword> element
o QUESTION; Do we need to mark up conformance
categories in any way? Gershon thinks we do. They are currently in plain
text (no markup).
o Gershon added additional comments via
draft-comment/@author="Gershon" to be discussed at next TC meeting.
3. Tentative revised schedule:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200907/msg00163.html
4. How to deliver the arch spec -- should it be combined
with the lang spec?
o FOLLOWUP: Kristen delivered updated combined
draft for TC to consider.
5. Inheritance vs Cascade: Propagation?:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00021.html (Kimber)
Eliot needs to refactor amd rewrite - Sent to editors
via Wiki
Does anyone care about this issue? Yes, Paul and Jeff agree that
we need to define Inheritance vs Cascade and Propagation.
Action item: Jeff to remind TC last statement about these terms
via list.
When TC agrees on terms meaning via the list, Eliot to rewrite
the affected topics to make it clearer about these terms.
6. Specialization topics complete - Eliot suggests moving
element specifc info to element specific doc
Action item: Move arch spec info to lang spec for element
specific information
2. Use of the word "customization" [thread: some comments on the
Draft DITA 1.2 architecture spec]
* Action: editorial action for Eliot--check and close if
possible.
Incorporated Danis Bradley's comments on this issue
Closed
3. New ITEM: Issue: Map element IDs and references to them
*
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00024.html (Kimber)
Element IDs in map are not required to be unique currently.
Action: Michael to read over section for this issue to see if he
agrees IDs within a map must be unique
4. New ITEM: Lockmeta issues (Kimber)
* lockmeta: What is implication of "yes" for map
processing/rendition?
o
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00022.html
Union of metadata with map data - map overrides
element metadata
* Default For Lockmeta?
o
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00023.html
Action: Eliot to update Lockmeta description to
describe default behavior
Item closed
5. New ITEMS: Proposals for Refinements to Learning and Training Modules
Move that four proposals be accepted
Seconded - Rob Frankland
passed by acclamation
Action: Eliot to send message to Learning and Training
subcommittee informing them of this action
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00178.html
* Learning and Training Proposal: Make learningBasebody Optional
o
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00179.html
* Learning and Training Proposal: Allow Topicrefs to Nest
Themselves
o
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00180.html
o NEW
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200908/msg00027.html (revised
by Kimber)
* Learning and Training Proposal: New Subelement for
lcMatchingPair toHold Feedback
o
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00181.html
* Learning and Training Proposal: New Base Type for Interactions
o
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00182.html
Ongoing checks:
1. ITEM: Domain integrator (no new information 08.11.09)
* DITA DTD Generator
*
http://www.elovirta.com/dita-generator/
*
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200907/msg00116.html (Robert's
message with more info)
2. ITEM: OASIS hosting of a Web GUI
* Review progress
3. ITEM: Request for input on DITA 1.2 use:
* Status of DITA OT 1.5 reference implementation of 1.2 features:
o http://dita.xml.org/wiki/plans-for-dita-ot-15
o Note new list below for collecting affirmations of use.
4. ITEM: Review 1.2 list for items that should be considered for 1.3
* Update the DITA 1.3 list on the Wiki (Gershon)
* Action check: Gershon to add his research into the DITA 1.3
Proposals table.
5. New ITEM: Topichead does not allow keys
*
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200906/msg00143.html (Kimber)
Action: Don Day to remove this resolved item
Meeting Adjourned
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