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Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes 17 February2010


Are we meeting today? I thought we changed the meeting to March 10?

Thanks and best regards,

--Scott

Scott Hudson
Senior XML Architect
http://www.flatironssolutions.com





On 17-Feb-10 4:45 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:
> DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 February 2010
> =============================================================
>
> The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 at
> 01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+,
> 022:30p India+).
>
> 1. Roll call
>
> Present: Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton,
> Scott Hudson, Gershon Joseph, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland,
> Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh.  We have a quorum.
>
> Regrets: Patricia Gee
>
> 2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
>
> 3. Next meeting: 17 March 2010
>
> Changed to 10 March 2010.
>
> 4. Review of the agenda.
>
> Norm added item 11b.
>
> 5. Review of open action items
>
>    a.  Gershon to develop a reltable example.
>        Transferred to Bob.
>
>    b.  Norm to develop a proposal for maintaining the DocBook websites.
>        CONTINUED
>
>    c.  Norm better document indexterm in footnote.
>        COMPLETED.
>
>    d.  Bob to restart assembly related links discussion.
>        COMPLETED.
>
>    e.  Bob to initiate discussion of assembly info element.
>        COMPLETED.
>
>    f.  Jirka to write up requirements document for transclusions in DocBook.
>        CONTINUED.
>
>
> 7.  Publishing Subcommittee report.
>
> Still problems with the build process for DTDs. Norm is
> working on it. Namespaces don't work well in DTDs.
> May do XSD instead of DTDs.
>
> ACTION: Norm to work on the build process.
>
> 8.  eLearning Subcommittee report.
>
> Starting to work through other eLearning standards to
> learn best practices. There is now a SourceForge directory
> for samples and documents. [4]
>
> 9.  Metadata in assemblies
>       See Bob's email[2].
>
> The group agreed that metadata for assembly elements should be
> separated from metadata that should override the content
> of a resource. Gershon provided some perspective on the
> DITA approach.  We agreed that info should be used for metadata
> for assembly elements, so that its usage agrees with its usage
> in general DocBook (applies to its parent element).
> Could not agree on an element name for the other: info in
> a different namespace, info-override, info-resource. Will
> continue the discussion on the mailing list.
>
> ACTION: Bob to post element naming question to TC list.
>
> 10.  Linking in modular DocBook.
>       See Bob's email and followups.[3]
>
> A relationship/instance element references a resource
> element ID.  An inline relatedlink element references a
> content ID.  These are to be merged, filtered, sorted,
> and output at the end of each topic.  We agreed to
> add a "type" attribute to relatedlink to enable
> categorization similar to the relationship/association
> element.
>
> ACTION: Bob to create a sample for review.
>
> 11.  Transclusion in DocBook.
>
> Continued.
>
> 11b.  Schedule for release of 5.1 beta.
>
> Norm was wondering if getting a 5.1 beta out by March
> 10 would be possible, so he could include it in
> his talk at XML Prague 13-14 March.  He clarified
> that in 5.1 the assembly elements would be in a
> separate schema from the stock DocBook schema.
>
> 12.  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
>
>      RFEs to revisit for 6.0
>        1907003  biblioid content model too broad
>
>      RFEs to be considered
>        1679665  Add better support for modular documentation
>        2820190  add a topic element
>        2820947  Ability to transclude text
>
>        2935829  Expand content model of sidebar
> ACTION: Norm will investigate this item further.
>
> -----
>
> [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201001/msg00003.html
> [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201002/msg00002.html
> [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201002/msg00000.html
> [4] http://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/docbook/trunk/docbook/relaxng/elearning/
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
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