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Subject: Minutes: DocBook TC Meeting: 19 Jun 2001
DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 Jun 2001
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Meeting called to order at 13:04 by the chair.
| Agenda
| ------
|
| 1. Roll call
Norman Walsh, Chair
Sabine Ocker
Michael Sabrio
Michael Smith
Regrets:
Dennis Evans
Having failed to attend three consecutive meetings,
Sunthar Visuvalingam's membership in the TC lapses.
| 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting
Accepted.
| 3. Review of the agenda
Accepted.
| 4. Review of open action items
|
| a. Norm to clarify status of EBNF, MathML, and HTML Forms modules
Completed[2].
| b. Norm to add class='newsgroup' to systemitem
Completed.
| c. Norm to write concrete proposal for <co> in inlines that can
| occur in screen
Completed[3].
Moved to accept the proposal.
Accepted without objection.
Action: Norm to implement the proposal.
| d. Norm to write a concrete proposal for linking in DocBook 5.0
Continued, the XLink WG isn't finished yet.
| e. Norm to move open RFEs to SourceForge
Completed[4].
| f. Norm to publish closed RFEs as a static page for historical reference
Continued.
| g. M. Sabrio to investigate what elements his group would like
| to put metadata on
Completed.
Action: M. Sabrio to post to the docbook list.
Attibutes vs. elements?
Norm suggests that elements are probably better since they would
potentially allow for multiple namespaces (Dublin Core, OMF, etc.)
They also allow for richer content.
| h. Norm to propose new "name and address" markup
Continued.
| i. Dennis to ask local help author for information on help topic
| authoring
Transferred to Sabine. See item 6, below.
| j. Norm to add section.class parameter entity
Completed.
| k. Norm to post note about expanding the content model of filename
| and certain other inlines to the list.
Completed[5].
| l. Norm to publish a version of the Simplified DocBook DTD as an
| official test release.
Completed[2]
| 5. Expanding the content model of filename and certain other inlines
|
| Action, Command, Database, Filename, Hardware, Interface, KeyCap,
| Literal, Option, Parameter, Property, and SystemItem.
Moved to accept the proposal.
Accepted without objection.
Action: Norm to implement the proposal.
| 6. Adapting DocBook for more topic-oriented manuals
Action: Sabine to continue Dennis's action item and write an initial
proposal.
| 7. Content model issues relating to lists and procedures.
Action: Sabine to post a summary of continuing discussions.
| 8. Any other business
None.
| 9. Review of Requests for Enhancement (RFEs)
|
| 412476 Class on ProductName should be #IMPLIED
Proposed: make it #IMPLIED in V6.0
Accepted without objection.
Action: Norm to implement the proposal
| 413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME
This is generic linking again, leave pending.
| 416478 FigureGroup tag
Rejected.
It seems that the author could get the desired result in several other
ways: by placing several images in a single <figure> wrapper, by using
another container to hold them, or by using role attributes. This
appears to be a rendering issue.
| 417671 add section element to refentry
Accepted.
Action: Norm to implement.
| 423598 Content models that allow BridgeHead
Accepted.
Action: Norm to implement.
| 424577 Make refsection parallel to section
Duplicate of 417671.
| 425730 Create an SVG module
Accepted.
Action: Norm to implement.
| 426382 Allow SimpleSect inside Section
Accepted.
Action: Norm to implement.
| 431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability
Pending.
| 431412 RFE 113: proc. exp. of RevHistory order
Closed. Note that there is no order.
Action: Norm to update the documentation.
| 431413 RFE 121: add markup for signals
Proposed: suggest adding two new class values, 'Event' and
'EventHandler' to SystemItem.
Accepted without objection.
Action: Norm to contact the original author and see if this satisfies
the use cases.
| 431415 RFE 124: add markup for host identifiers
Previously accepted:
We already have a class on systemitem for systename. We suggest that
these are further useful class values for systemitem but do not
warrant a unique element name. We'll add the following class
attributes to systemitem: domainname, fqdomainname, ipaddress,
netmask, etheraddress. We consider hostname already covered by
systemname.
Action: Norm to implement.
| 431417 RFE 126: allow SimpleSect in Section
Duplicate of 426382.
| 431418 RFE 128: typing and linking in funcdef
Previously accepted:
We'll add type to the content model of funcdef and paramdef to allow
authors to specify that types are in fact types. Linking will be
handled by XLink in some future version.
Action: Norm to implement.
| 431419 RFE 130: markup protocol, FS type, part.
Previously accepted:
Protocol is another example of a case where we need to consider the
design more carefully (what other things are like protocols); in the
meantime use literal, phrase, or some other markup with a role
attribute.
We'll add 'filesystem' to the class attribute of systemitem.
We'll add 'partition' to the class attribute of filename.
Action: Norm to implement.
| ?????? Add language attribute to fieldsynopsis et al.
Proposal: Add language attribute to fieldsynopsis,
constructorsynopsis, destructorsynopsis, and methodsynopsis
Accepted without objection.
Action: Norm to implement.
Meeting adjourned at 13:59 by the chair.
[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200105/msg00009.html
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200106/msg00059.html
[4] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=384107&group_id=21935&func=browse
[5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200106/msg00049.html
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Words--so innocent and powerless
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | they are, as standing in a
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | dictionary, how potent for good
| and evil they become, in the hands
| of one who knows how to use
| them!--Nathaniel Hawthorne
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