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Subject: RE: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 October 2011
Wasn't there supposed to be an action for me about providing multimedia examples? > -----Original Message----- > From: docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:docbook-tc@lists.oasis- > open.org] On Behalf Of Bob Stayton > Sent: Thursday, 2011 October 20 17:29 > To: DocBook Technical Committee > Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 > October 2011 > > DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 October 2011 > ============================================================= > > The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 at > 01:00p EDT for 60 minutes. > > 1. Roll call > > Present: > Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, > Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland, > Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh > > Regrets: > Nancy Harrison, Gershon Joseph > > 2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting. > > 3. Next meeting: 16 November 2011 > > 4. Review of the agenda. > > Add item for Simplified and other supplemental schemas. > > 5. Review of open action items > > a. Bob to update his XSL stylesheet for building a > DocBook document from an assembly. > COMPLETED > > b. Bob to add contributed Publisher's stylesheets to the XSL > distribution. > CONTINUED > > c. Norm to post Simplfied DocBook 5.0 to docbook.org. > CONTINUED > > d. Gerson to propose content models for result element(s) > (RFE 3163121). > CONTINUED > > e. Norm to modify the assembly documentation to reflect > that automatic renderas not be part of the assembly > specification itself. > COMPLETED > > f. Larry to write documentation on creating a navigational > hierarchy from an assembly. > CONTINUED > > g. Norm to propose XInclude enhancements to W3C. > COMPLETED > > h. Norm will clarify the resolution of > RFE 3107140 aconym expansion inline > CONTINUED > > i. Larry to respond to the RFE 3383019 > DocBook Music Notation > CONTINUED > > j. Scott to reconvene the Publishers Subcommittee > to discuss the RFEs. > CONTINUED > > k. Norm to add change allowing tag elements to next to 5.1. > Correction: > Norm to add change allowing tag elements to nest to 5.1. > CONTINUED > > > 6. DocBook assembly > > a. allow structure to behave like module (see Bob's email [2]) > > Larry suggested that if structure element behaves like > module, then do we need structure? Norm also would like > a comparison of structure and module if we make this change. > > ACTION: Bob to report on differences between structure and module. > > Larry suggested two alternate methods of achieving the equivalent > of resourceref on structure. > > i. Use a child module with contentonly to reference a top-level > resource. > > ii. Use a single child module that contains all other content, so > structure does not contribute an element. > > ACTION: Bob and Larry to prepare samples of the same content > implemented > in these different approaches. > > b. other issues? > > Bob requested that people try out the XSL stylesheets he prepared > for processing assembly. He pointed out that the kit includes a > stylesheet to disassemble an existing DocBook document into > topics and an assembly to make it easy to get started. > > > 7. Extended XLink support (see Norm's email [3]) > Continued from last meeting. > > To fix the current lack of support for extended XLinks in DocBook 5, > Norm made two proposals: > > a. In 5.1, allow XLink attributes in more places, and remove > restrictions > on current attributes. APPROVED > > ACTION: Norm to implement in schema, subject to > final review and approval by TC. > > b. In 6.0, modify extendedlink element in backwards-incompatible way. > > ACTION: Norm to announce changes to extendedlink to be made in 6.0 > > 8. Transclusion in DocBook. > > Norm wrote a blog report on his thoughts. [4] > > The current thinking is that this feature is not DocBook-specific, > so a solution from the W3C XML Core Working Group is preferable. > Norm suggests adding attributes in different namespace on > XInclude to handle processing options. These would be removed by > current XInclude processing. He suggests that they be allowed > to pass through in some way for processing downstream. > The WG will be reviewing this at their next meeting. > > Decide on element vs. attribute (see [5]). > Other issues? > > The current proposal for DocBook-specific transclusion elements > is on hold for now. > > 8b. Supplemental schemas > > Norm will produce a DocBook 5 version of Simplified DocBook, > and this will be an official TC product. > > Slides and website are not official. > Norm wrote new slides stylesheet.[6] > Dick and Dave Pawson created a DocBook 5 website schema. > > ACTION: Norm to prepare slides and website schemas in 5.0. > > > 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 > 3383019 DocBook Music Notation > 3384939 db.xlink.type.attribute is too narrowly defined > > New RFEs > 3406169 allow multiple procedure elements in a task element > > Larry spoke in favor of this proposal. APPROVED. > > ACTION: Norm to allow procedure+ in task in DocBook 5.1. > > ACTION: Bob to add agenda item for next month: > multimedia support in DocBook 5. > > ----- > > [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook- > tc/201108/msg00012.html > [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook- > tc/201108/msg00018.html > [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook- > tc/201108/msg00001.html > [4] http://norman.walsh.name/2011/10/03/transclusion > [5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook- > tc/201108/msg00007.html > [6] https://github.com/docbook/xslt20- > stylesheets/tree/master/xslt/slides > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > bobs@sagehill.net > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-tc-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-tc-help@lists.oasis-open.org
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