DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 19 Nov 2003

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 19 Nov 2003
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 19 Nov 2003 at
05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+,
02:30a India+) for 90 minutes.

The teleconference phone number is +1.865.524.6352. The participant
code is 7386368. Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.

Agenda

1. Roll call
2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting
3. Next meeting: 16 Dec 2003.
4. Review of the agenda
5. Review of open action items

    a. Norm to follow-up on RFE 562343: <packagename> element
    b. Norm to write better documentation for option/optional
    c. Norm to describe how the prototype works and how it was constructed.
    d. Mike to provide a better proposal for choicelist markup.
    e. Mike to reconsider the annotation problem and post his thoughts.
    f  Norm to post his stylesheet that attempts to convert existing DocBook
       documents to the "V5" style markup.
    g. Norm to add bibliolist to next agenda.
    h. Norm and Bob to coordinate secretarial duties.
    i. Norm to make firstterm and glossterm isomorphic.
    j. Dick to propose more general solution for caption in mediaobject.
    k. Steve to propose generalizing programlisting to the list.

6. Action reminders? (Bob)

7. Improved citations proposal (RFE 810932).

8. DocBook V4.3 CR1

9. DocBook V5.0 (RELAX NG)

10. Bibliolist (from bibliography in refentry RFEs 742624 and 686733).
    Considered by TC in 2001 [2].
    Norm's proposal from 2001 [3].
    Recent TC discussion in August 2003 [4].
    Norm proposed bibliolist [5], one positive response from list.

    <!ELEMENT bibliolist (blockinfo?,
                      (%formalobject.title.content;)?,
                      (biblioentry|bibliomixed)+)>

    With common attributes.
    To be allowed anywhere other sorts of lists are allowed.

11. Review of Requests for Enhancement

    To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line):

      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&;;
      group_id=21935&atid=384107&aid=XXXX

      543064 JavaObject tag
      675024 form, script, applet support
      698026 cannot embed <superscript> within <guibutton>
      702185 add procedure as child of para
      711815 Tagging for subtler breaks or "pauses" within a chapter
      742373 Splitting Segmented List
      752632 Color control of CALS table element
      798616 syntax="" or notation="" needed for code listings
      828720 'spacing' attr. for 'variablelist'


     The following RFEs are awaiting action items

      413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME (Norm, generic linking)
      431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability (Norm)
      522552 Add title attribute to <ulink> element (Mike, annotations)
      541444 caption in mediaobjectco (Dick)
      562343 <packagename> element (Norm)
      565637 Associate non-inline image with link (Norm, generic linking)
      574880 Add annotation element (Mike)
      613293 Generalize programlisting (Steve)
      623524 (Re)Consider "choicelist" markup (Mike)

     The following RFEs are identified as V6.0 or later

      531851 Remove inline person name elements
      532088 Remove RevHistory from qandaentry
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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200310/msg00082.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200108/msg00067.html
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200108/msg00081.html
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200308/msg00037.html
[5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200309/msg00061.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net