DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 16 July 2014

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 16 July 2014
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 16 July 2014
at 1:00pm ET.

1. Roll call

Present: Dick Hamilton, Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland,
Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh

Absent: Loren Cahlander, Nancy Harrison

2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting (May).

3. Next meeting: 20 August 2014

Scott expressed regrets.

4. Review of the agenda.

No changes.

5. Review of open action items

  a.  Norm to publish an XSD for 5.1 when it is finished.
      CONTINUE

  b.  Norm to publish DocBook 5 CR3 and announce plans to move
      forward.
      COMPLETED

  c.  Norm to work with OASIS to advance DocBook 5.1 to
      OASIS Standard.
      CONTINUE


6.  Publisher's and eLearning subcommittee reports

Scott put forth draft XSL stylesheets for processing publisher's
documents.  He would like them to be reviewed, and the problems
with the epub version resolved.

7.  Transclusion in DocBook

Norm reports that the W3C is still awaiting a second
implementation to demonstrate the new W3C XInclude standard.

ACTION: Norm to convince someone to implement the new XInclude
standard.

ACTION: Jirka will update the "DocBook Transclusion" document to
(http://docbook.org/docs/transclusion/transclusion.html) to be
based on new XInclude 1.1 features.

8.  DocBook 5.1 release

Norm announced Candidate Release 3 on the DocBook list,
will complete the XML Schema version, and will work with
OASIS to start the standards process.

9.  Review of Requests for Enhancement

    To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line):

      https://sourceforge.net/p/docbook/rfes/300/

    RFEs to revisit for 6.0

    247   1907003  biblioid content model too broad

   RFEs under discussion

   Ticket  Tracker
    260   2820947  Ability to transclude text
    273   3035565  Allow sections at any level
    291   3491860   license tag  (hold for 5.2)

   No new RFEs


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[1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201405/msg00003.html

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Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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