Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 15 June 2011

"Rowland, Larry" <> writes:
> I must give my regrets for this month's meeting, as a mandatory
> training session has been scheduled directly opposite this meeting
> (and I suspect you all will be having more fun).
>
> I had completed my action item prior to the previous meeting, however
> there was little discussion on the mailing lists. I have attached my
> original message and Norm's response to it and my response to him.
> Norm and I did discuss the issues briefly during the second attempt at
> last month's meeting and resolved that using the element name
> "description" instead of "manifesttext" would be preferable and that
> supporting namespaces in the format attribute is something we should
> probably wait to implement until it is requested, since you could
> include something to indicate the namespace in the tokens that were
> used (dita.webhelp and db.webhelp for the DITA and DocBook versions of
> Web help). With these changes, I think that updating the schema to
> deal with the issues listed in the original message would bring it
> into compliance with what we have discussed.

Ok. I've made the changes, I think, and put a snapshot of the revised
docs online at http://nwalsh.com/scratch/defguide5/