Minutes for 2006/10/10 meeting

1. Approve minutes from previous business
meeting: *  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200610/msg00015.html
(3 Oct) 

- don moves to approve, scott hudson
seconds, approved

Business: 

2. ITEM: Canvas for TC additional TC
rep on Machine Subcommittee (Kravogel) 

- chris kravogel will post announcement
to dita users list today/tomorrow, aiming for start next week

3. ITEM (added): Conref overriding attributes
of the target 

 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200610/msg00016.html


- merge of source and target
- exception is id, which is not merged
from target
- when conflict, source wins, unless
attribute is empty
- if make required, issue if it doesn't
allow empty values - won't be able to get that att from the target using
conref
- much discussion ensues - eliot suggests
making all attributes unrequired, france resists based on usability concerns
- we run out of time, will convene special
meeting
- paul grosso, france baril, eliot kimber,
robert anderson, michael priestley, don day to meet to continue discussion

4. Remaining items deferred till next
week:
ITEM: Status of Nested Sections Issue


 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200610/msg00026.html


ITEM: Use of standardized prefixes when
incorporating foreignvocabularies 

 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200610/msg00021.html


ITEM: Versioning of DITA public identifiers


 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200610/msg00025.html


ITEM: metadata behaviour in maps 

 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200610/msg00012.html


ITEM: treating index-see as index-see-also


 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200610/msg00014.html


ITEM: Ongoing review of 1.1 drafts:


Architectural Spec (Michael Priestley)


 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200609/msg00030.html
(Arch Spec) 

Language Spec (Don Day) 

 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200609/msg00027.html
(Lang Spec) 

 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200609/msg00005.html
(1.1 XSDs) 

 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200609/msg00004.html
(1.1 DTDs) 

Michael Priestley

IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead



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