DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 28 July 2004

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

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 28 July 2004
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** NOTE CHANGE OF MEETING DATE **

The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 28 July 2004 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: 18 August 2004.
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

    a. Mike to provide a better proposal for choicelist markup.
    b. Norm to publish flattened version of the 4.3 XML DTD.
    c. Norm to ask Karl about creating stable OASIS URIs.
    d. Larry to look into section 508 accessibility issues
       with DocBook elements.
    e. Adam to ask the submitter for more information.
       about 950206 Nested bibliodivs
    f. Norm to create official releases for Simplified DocBook 1.1,
       MathML, and others that are dependent on DocBook 4.3.
    g. Bob to identify elements in DocBook that correspond to
       valid locations of HTML forms in HTML output.
    h. Scott will investigate places where
       anchor should be permitted.
    i. Norm to query the mailing list about removing xml:base
       from the SGML version of 4.4.
    j. Norm to query the mailing list about the impact for 4.4
       of making the rules attribute in tables into CDATA,
       not enumerated.
    k. Mike to communicate the decision about RFE 971095 (Allow authorgroup
       anywhere author is allowed) to the submittor.

6. DTD version 4.4 beta

7. Request for canonical URIs for Docbook DTDs. [2]
    (carried forward from last month)

8. DocBook namespace (Nancy)

9. Annotation proposal (Mike).  [3]

10. Discuss guidelines for accepting or rejecting requests.

11. alt text for accessibility.
    Reports from action items?

12. html:form should be available in more places
   than in %divcomponent.mix;  [4] [5]
   (continue to next meeting when Bob can attend?)
   

13. 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

      950206 Nested bibliodivs
      973446 Replace Footnote with Annotation 
      982763 Allow nested tables in td 

     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 (closed?) (Dick)
      565637 Associate non-inline image with link (Norm, generic linking)
      574880 Add annotation element (Mike)
      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-tc/200406/msg00019.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200406/msg00084.html
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200406/msg00003.html
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200406/msg00081.html
[5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200404/msg00032.html



Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net