DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 17 August 2011

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

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 17 August 2011
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 at
01:00p EDT for 90 minutes.

Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.

This is the phone number for Wednesday's DocBook TC call:

Phone: +1-719-387-5556
 Code: 902213

The DocBook TC uses the #docbook IRC channel on
irc.freenode.org.  The IRC channel is used for exchanging
URIs, providing out-of-band comments, and other aspects
of the teleconference, so please join us there if at
all possible.

Agenda

1. Roll call
2. Accepting the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 21 September 2011
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

  a.  Bob to update his XSL stylesheet for building a
      DocBook document from an assembly.

  b.  Bob to add contributed Publisher's stylesheets to the XSL distribution.

  c.  Norm to post Simplfied DocBook 5.0 to docbook.org.

  d.  Gerson to propose content models for result element(s)
      (RFE 3163121).

  e. Bob and Nancy to initiate a discussion on the mailing
     list to further develop the issues between the two approaches
     to transclusions (ref element vs. attributes).


6.  DocBook assembly 

 a. inheritance of renderas attribute (see Bob's email [2])
 b. other issues?

7.  Extended XLink support (see Norm's email [3])

8.  Transclusion in DocBook.

Continue element vs. attribute discussion
(see [4]).

9.  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 under discussion
      2820947  Ability to transclude text 
      3035565  Allow sections at any level  
      3107140  aconym expansion inline 
      3156768  <result> tag

    New RFEs
      3383019  DocBook Music Notation 
      3384939  db.xlink.type.attribute is too narrowly defined 
      3390036  Allow tag elements to nest


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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201107/msg00005.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201107/msg00006.html
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201108/msg00001.html
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201108/msg00007.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net