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Subject: Groups - DITA TC Meeting Minutes 21 October 2014 uploaded


Submitter's message
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Minutes of the OASIS DITA TC
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Recorded by Nancy Harrison
link to agenda for this meeting:
https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/PreviousAgendas


Regrets: Joann Hackos


Standing Business
=================
Approve minutes from previous business meetings:
[none available this week]


Subcommittee Reports
none


Announcements
none


Business
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1. DITA 1.3 progress
Second spec review (Eberlein & Anderson)
Transformation utilities and DITA 1.3 grammar files (Kimber)
[see individual items below]


2. Action items
- Action items from 19 August 2014
Robert: Shells for L & T: Robert, Kris, Eliot, and John to meet.
Robert; group had conclusive discussion; TC will deliver one set of shells for each variety of L&T shells, but Eliot will maintain RNG version that allows for generation of either one or combination. [removing this item from list of ActionItems]
- Action items from 26 August 2014:
Nancy will review specialization and constraints topics, with the purpose of: a) suggesting placement for new topic or content chunk, b) reviewing for clarity, organization, technical accuracy. This is in regard to content re limitations of XSD shells and constraints. (currently in process, now that spec is available for review)
[no change]
- Action items from 2 September:
Stan to assess Front Page wiki for possible clean-up
[no change]
- Action items from 16 September:
Robert will send details about necessary OASIS comments in grammar files to Eliot.
[no change]


3. 2nd spec review progress: 13 - 27 October 2014
- https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/1.3-spec-review-#preview
Wiki page contains:
Download link for official review draft
Review objectives
Tracking tables for review assignments
Information about prizes (yet to be determined)
Review stats as of 10:20 AM ET:
- https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00133.html
Proposal owners' review
Table of proposal owner reviews
[skip this item until Stan and Michael are on call]


4. Trello items: Spec clarification and improvements
https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/1.3-spec-review-#trello-spec-clarifications
ActionItems:
a. wrt constraints file name extensions, Nancy will contact Eliot by mail, with Kris in loop, to clarify extension issue.
b. TC members will work on Trello items and make changes in spec and in table on wiki


5. Continued item: Question about domains attribute:
Resolution reached
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00103.html (Eberlein, 15 October 2014)
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00000.html (Anderson, 3 October 2014)
This was discussed via email between Robert Anderson and Eliot Kimber;
Resolution: the spec will be updated to allow use of tokens even when using base DITA shells, but it won't include any normative language in this area, so the tokens won't be required.


6. New item: Issues in DTDs checked into SVN
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00110.html (Anderson, 20 October 2014)
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00111.html (Kimber, 20 October 2014)
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00112.html (Anderson, 20 October 2014)
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00113.html (Eberlein, 20 October 2014)
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00115.html (Anderson, 20 October 2014)
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00116.html (Kimber, 20 October 2014)
Robert gave overview; issue arose when Kris noticed a problem in domain tokens; Eliot said it was a problem in 1.2, but it wasn't. That is, 1.2 as distributed by OASIS didn't have problem; 1.2 in SVN, which was generated by Eliot's RNG->DTD scripts, has it. So Robert resurrected tools he built and used for 1.2, and did a diff between what was shipped in 1.2 and the 1.2 files generated by Eliot's tools. This turned up a whole bunch of differences, so areas where the transform was generating invalid code, because there were typos in the RNG, some more anomalous diffs.

[long discussion, mostly between Robert, Kris, and Eliot, with some comments by others, as to whether we need a serious manual inspection of the 1.2 / 1.3 code, and whether we need to stop generating the DTDs from the transforms at some point and finish them off by hand for 1.3. Robert and Kris think we need to do this, Eliot would like to create final 1.3 code using the transform.]

Will continue discussion next week to try to come up with a date to go over to manual mode; ChrisN, DavidH, BobT have said they'll do testing of doc shells against real content. Eric Sirois agreed to do visual inspection of XSD files. Feature owners really need to test 'final' spec and content models to make sure the descriptions and grammar files for their features all read and work as expected.

Don suggested that Eliot incorporate a regex test of his generated files as part of validating them. Eliot said he would do that. Not an alternative to manual inspection, but in addition...


7. Statements of use for DITA 1.3
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00114.html (Eberlein, 20 October 2014)
Kris; please take a look at emailed reference item for next week.


8. "Fun" with constraints:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00125.html (Eberlein, 20 October 2014)
Kris; we really need folks to look over this material; Nancy, Bob, TomM will all review it.


9. Use of %tbl.table.name in tblDecl.mod
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201410/msg00118.html (Kimber 20 October 2014)
Overview: there continues to be an exchange by Robert and Eliot on list



closed at 11:59 Eastern
-- Nancy Harrison
Document Name: DITA TC Meeting Minutes 21 October 2014

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Submitter: Nancy Harrison
Group: OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC
Folder: Meeting Notes
Date submitted: 2014-10-27 20:08:13



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