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Subject: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 October 2006
DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 October 2006 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 18 October 2006 at 05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, 02:30a India+) for 80 minutes. 1. Roll call Present: Steve Cogorno, Gary Cornelius, Nancy Harrison, Scott Hudson, Gershon Joseph, Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh Regrets: Paul Grosso, Jirka Kosek On leave: Dick Hamilton 2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. 3. Next meeting: 15 November 2006 No regrets. Take note of switch from daylight savings time. 4. Review of the agenda. Accepted. 5. Review of open action items a. Norm and Bob to review and close any RFEs that should be closed. COMPLETED b. Bob to investigate what other biblio elements might be appropriate inline. COMPLETED c. Norm to enhance the description of HTML table markup in The Definitive Guide. COMPLETED d. Bob to add inline jobtitle to next month's agenda. COMPLETED e. Norm to fix inlineequation to take inlinemediaobject in the next DB5 beta. COMPLETED f. Norm to explain to the submittor of RFE 1557319 that in DB5 indexterm parents are like replaceable. COMPLETED 6. DocBook 4.5 news. DocBook 4.5 is now an official OASIS Specification! A press release will be going out shortly. 7. Inline jobtitle (RFE 1537424). See Bob's mail [2] Bob mentioned other elements not already available inline that might be needed inline, such as publisher, publishername, and biblioid. The publisher element contains publishername and address, and no one supported making it inline. The publishername element had more support, but not enough to be added inline. The biblioid element would invite other related elements such as edition, seriesvolnums, etc., and no one wanted to add such. Regarding the original request, many agreed with the use case of identifying a jobtitle such as "Database Administrator" without associating it with a person's name. Nancy thought inline jobtitle was not appropriate, that it was more like an audience metadata that should be handled in another way. After more discussion, the committee voted 4 to 3 (1 abstention) to allow jobtitle inline. 8. Other DocBook 5 issues. None. Norm mentioned that if we want a Committee Specification for 5.0 in time for the December XML conference, we will have to approve it at the November meeting. 9. Unfinished business: RFE 1097183: Allow Task as a sibling of sections Much discussion about this issue. Steve felt task was a structure element, not a block element as currently defined. Some members support the RFE, some members oppose. Several outcomes were summarized by Norm: a. add task as a sibling of section (per the request). b. create a new "topic" structure, which would be less sequential than the current section structure. A book could consist of topics; a chapter could consist of topics; some topics could be tasktopic elements with a more restricted content model; topics may or may not nest. Nancy suggested looking at this idea in a larger context to meet more than just task needs. c. structural workaround, where a section with role="task" would contain just a task element with no title (the title being on the section). d. no changes. The committee felt more discussion via email was needed. ACTION: Norm to write email to initiate discussion on the docbook list. 10. 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 1097183 Allow Task as a sibling of sections See agenda item 9. 1537424 Allow Jobtitle inline See agenda item 7. 1568417 Duplicate Schematron rules Bug reported by Jirka, to be fixed by Norm. 1568419 Inverted Schematron assertion for termdef Bug reported by Jirka, to be fixed by Norm. 1575537 allow markup from other namespaces in info Scott described a need to include ODRL (digital rights management) information in its namespace in a docbook info element. Norm described a way to allow non-docbook namespaced elements in info, using RNG syntax (but not DTD syntax). The committee felt more discussion via email was needed. ACTION: Scott to write email to initiate discussion on the docbook list. Meeting adjourned 6:20pm EDT. - --- [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200609/msg00004.html [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200610/msg00011.html Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net
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