DocBook Technical Committee Meeting: 18 May 2001

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting: 18 May 2001
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The DocBook Technical Committee has a one hour teleconference at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+) on
Friday, 18 May 2001.

Agenda
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1. Roll call

2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting

3. Review of the agenda

4. Review of open action items

   a. Norm to fix RFE database
   b. Norm to raise on list: EBNF
   c. Norm to raise on list: newsgroup element or class on systemitem 
   d. Norm to ask for more detail on RFE 136 (co in userinput)
   e. Dennis to investigate problems caused by removing OLink
   f. Michael (Sabrio) to investigate problems caused by removing OLink
   g. Norm to develop a concrete proposal for linking in 5.0
   h. Norm to make a concrete proposal for extending textobject to insert
      external files
   i. Norm to make a concrete proposal for coref

5. Report on the SourceForge DocBook Project[2] (moving the RFE database
   to SourceForge)

6. Metadata issues
  - The Open Source Metadata Framework[3]
  - Dublin core[4]
  - Metadata for elements at the block level
  - Names and addresses/the content model of author

7. Adapting DocBook for more topic-oriented manuals

8. Addition of section.class parameter entity [5]

9. Expand the content model of filename (and perhaps some related elements)
   to be broader than smallcptr.char.mix. [6][7]

10. Content model issues relating to lists and procedures.[8][9]

11. Any other business

Upcoming Meetings
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27 Jul 2001: Teleconference
28 Sep 2001: Teleconference
14 Dec 2001: Face-to-face colocated with XML/MT 2001 (Orlando, FL)

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/meetings/min20010223.html
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/
[3] http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/
[4] http://dublincore.org/
[5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200103/msg00005.html
[6] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200103/msg00006.html
[7] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200101/msg00059.html
[8] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200103/msg00001.html
[9] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200104/msg00016.html

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | It'll cost you.
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | 
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |