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Subject: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 25 June 2002




From: Norman Walsh <>
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:23:02 -0400






DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 25 Jun 2002
=======================================================

The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Tuesday, 25 June 2002 at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+)
for 90 minutes.

The teleconference phone number is 888.296.1938 (304.345.7506
internationally). The participant code is 586310. Attendance at
teleconferences is restricted to members (and prospective members) of
the committee.

Agenda

1. Roll call
2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting
3. Review of the agenda
4. Review of open action items {5 min}

   a. Norm to write a concrete proposal for linking in DocBook 5.0
      Completed[2]
   b. Nancy to review DITA for help authoring and summarize.
   c. Norm to consider scheduling for 4.3, 5.0, 6.0 etc.
      Continued.
   d. Norm and Paul to take up offline the particular issues of how
      to do the HTML/Table customization.
      Continued.
   e. Norm to follow-up on 'optionalparamdef'/'optionalmethodparam' after
      starting discussion on the list[3][4]
   f. Norm to follow-up with the submitter for more info about
      RFE #495853: add 'caption' to itemizedlist content-model
      asking the submitter for clarification
      Completed [5]
   g. Bob to write an RFE for instance-based generated xref text
   h. Mike to file an bug report against the character entities (wrt identification)
      Completed and fixed [6]
   i. Norm to review the status of the XML Character Entities document.
   j. Norm to identify the questionable mappings and fix outstanding bugs.
   k. Tim to contact a representative from Microsoft to discuss help authoring
   l. Norm to ask on the list about RFE #514425: Simplify info elements
      Completed [7]
   m. Norm to ask the list if the relative ordering of info elements and titles
      is an issue (worth fixing)
      Completed [8]
   n. Mike to follow-up with the submitter for more info about
      RFE #514435: Allow reference within refentry

5. Discuss XML Character Entities {10 min}
    - OASIS/W3C coordination
    - iso-lat5
6. Discuss options to control per-instance generated text on xref {15 min}
7. Discuss Help Authoring {10 min}
8. Discuss Annotations {15 min}
9. Review of Requests for Enhancement {35 min}

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

        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;;
        group_id=21935&amp;atid=384107&amp;aid=XXXX

   where XXXX is the RFE number.

   473365 Allow optional in funcprototype
   514244 Allowing xref inside link
   514425 Simplify info elements
   514435 Allow reference within refentry
   533734 Allow methodsynopsis not to have paramet
   558443 include storage info in metadata
   560957 Allow Linkend and Endterm on Citation
   562343 <packagename> element
   564776 process/service/daemon/server markup
   565637 Associate non-inline image with link
   565716 URL and URN markup
   565905 Add xrefstyle attribute
   570068 Online values for pubwork
   571996 Add 'namespace' inline element
   571998 Add 'default' inline element

   The following RFEs are awaiting action items

   472229 Allow HTML tables
   431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability

   The following RFEs have been moved to the bottom of this agenda in order
   to make sure that all RFEs get fairly discussed.

   413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME
   425730 Create an SVG module
   436067 splitting tech.char.class
   482818 Simplify ToC content model
   522552 Add title attribute to <ulink> element

[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200205/msg00083.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200206/msg00139.html
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200205/msg00078.html
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200206/msg00005.html
[5] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=495853&group_id=21935&atid=384107
[6] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=559737&group_id=21935&atid=462824
[7] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200206/msg00043.html
[8] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200206/msg00044.html

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <>      | Human felicity is produced not so
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | much by great pieces of good
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | fortune that seldom happen, as by
                                   | little advantages that occur every
                                   | day.--Benjamin Franklin