Re: my action item - DocBook TC Meeting Agenda: 21 December 2005

[Nancy P Harrison <nancyph@us.ibm.com>]

For my action item on xNAL, the best summary is on this OASIS page:

        http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/ciq.shtml

Other good links are:

        Robin Cover's xNAL page: http://xml.coverpages.org/xnal.html
        OASIS CIQ home page 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ciq

The xNAL/xNL/xAL specs are name and address schemas for use in 
communication between buisnesses and customers.

My opinion, FWIW, is that they are,too big complex to usefully incorporate 
to any great extent in DocBook; we can do with a much more lightweigh set 
of elements/attributes to describe people or organizations.  We could look 
at some of the elements to see if we can make any of our elements 
isomorphic to similar elements in the schemas, but trying to match them up 
exactly would be a waste of our time.

____
Nancy Harrison
IBM Rational Software
Phone: 781-676-2535
nancyph@us.ibm.com


"Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote on 12/19/2005 01:50:37 PM:

> DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 December 2005
> =============================================================
> 
> The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 21 December 2005 
at
> 05:00p EST (02:00p PST, 22:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 07:00JST+,
> 03:30a 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, including
>    Norm's amendment [2].
> 3. Next meeting: 18 January 2005
> 4. Review of the agenda.
> 5. Review of open action items
> 
>     a.  Norm to pursue the process of making DTD 4.5
>         an OASIS standard.
> 
>     b.  The Java language has added java annotations, and Norm
>         wondered how these would be marked up in a synopsis.
>         The C# language also has annotations, Jirka pointed out.
> 
>         ACTION: Norm to investigate this issue some more.
> 
>     c.  Nancy to email info on XML address standard xNAL.
> 
>     d.  Jirka to write up the customization process for
>         MathML and SVG support in DocBook 5.
> 
>     e.  Norm to write up a description of how authors
>         should handle elements that have been dropped.
> 
>     f.  Norm to fix equation content model in 5.0.
> 
>     g.  Bob to post a list of default attributes in 4.x.
> 
> 
> 6.  Default attribute values in DocBook 5.
>     Other DocBook 5 issues.
> 
> 7.  DocBook and DITA interoperability session at 
>     OASIS Symposium 2006, 9-12 May 2006, San Francisco. [3]
> 
> 8. 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
> 
>       1306027  Support for annotations in synopsis elements 
>       1358844  allow multiple imageobject in imageobjectco 
>       1380477  Allow area to inherit from areaset 
> 
> - ---
> 
> [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200511/msg00022.html
> [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200512/msg00011.html
> [3] http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> 
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