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Subject: RE: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 October 2011
Wasn't there supposed to be an action for me
about providing multimedia examples?
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> From: docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:[email protected]
> open.org] On Behalf Of Bob Stayton
> Sent: Thursday, 2011 October 20 17:29
> To: DocBook Technical Committee
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19
> October 2011
>
> DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 October 2011
> =============================================================
>
> The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 at
> 01:00p EDT for 60 minutes.
>
> 1. Roll call
>
> Present:
> Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton,
> Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland,
> Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh
>
> Regrets:
> Nancy Harrison, Gershon Joseph
>
> 2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
>
> 3. Next meeting: 16 November 2011
>
> 4. Review of the agenda.
>
> Add item for Simplified and other supplemental schemas.
>
> 5. Review of open action items
>
> a. Bob to update his XSL stylesheet for building a
> DocBook document from an assembly.
> COMPLETED
>
> b. Bob to add contributed Publisher's stylesheets to the XSL
> distribution.
> CONTINUED
>
> c. Norm to post Simplfied DocBook 5.0 to docbook.org.
> CONTINUED
>
> d. Gerson to propose content models for result element(s)
> (RFE 3163121).
> CONTINUED
>
> e. Norm to modify the assembly documentation to reflect
> that automatic renderas not be part of the assembly
> specification itself.
> COMPLETED
>
> f. Larry to write documentation on creating a navigational
> hierarchy from an assembly.
> CONTINUED
>
> g. Norm to propose XInclude enhancements to W3C.
> COMPLETED
>
> h. Norm will clarify the resolution of
> RFE 3107140 aconym expansion inline
> CONTINUED
>
> i. Larry to respond to the RFE 3383019
> DocBook Music Notation
> CONTINUED
>
> j. Scott to reconvene the Publishers Subcommittee
> to discuss the RFEs.
> CONTINUED
>
> k. Norm to add change allowing tag elements to next to 5.1.
> Correction:
> Norm to add change allowing tag elements to nest to 5.1.
> CONTINUED
>
>
> 6. DocBook assembly
>
> a. allow structure to behave like module (see Bob's email [2])
>
> Larry suggested that if structure element behaves like
> module, then do we need structure? Norm also would like
> a comparison of structure and module if we make this change.
>
> ACTION: Bob to report on differences between structure and module.
>
> Larry suggested two alternate methods of achieving the equivalent
> of resourceref on structure.
>
> i. Use a child module with contentonly to reference a top-level
> resource.
>
> ii. Use a single child module that contains all other content, so
> structure does not contribute an element.
>
> ACTION: Bob and Larry to prepare samples of the same content
> implemented
> in these different approaches.
>
> b. other issues?
>
> Bob requested that people try out the XSL stylesheets he prepared
> for processing assembly. He pointed out that the kit includes a
> stylesheet to disassemble an existing DocBook document into
> topics and an assembly to make it easy to get started.
>
>
> 7. Extended XLink support (see Norm's email [3])
> Continued from last meeting.
>
> To fix the current lack of support for extended XLinks in DocBook 5,
> Norm made two proposals:
>
> a. In 5.1, allow XLink attributes in more places, and remove
> restrictions
> on current attributes. APPROVED
>
> ACTION: Norm to implement in schema, subject to
> final review and approval by TC.
>
> b. In 6.0, modify extendedlink element in backwards-incompatible way.
>
> ACTION: Norm to announce changes to extendedlink to be made in 6.0
>
> 8. Transclusion in DocBook.
>
> Norm wrote a blog report on his thoughts. [4]
>
> The current thinking is that this feature is not DocBook-specific,
> so a solution from the W3C XML Core Working Group is preferable.
> Norm suggests adding attributes in different namespace on
> XInclude to handle processing options. These would be removed by
> current XInclude processing. He suggests that they be allowed
> to pass through in some way for processing downstream.
> The WG will be reviewing this at their next meeting.
>
> Decide on element vs. attribute (see [5]).
> Other issues?
>
> The current proposal for DocBook-specific transclusion elements
> is on hold for now.
>
> 8b. Supplemental schemas
>
> Norm will produce a DocBook 5 version of Simplified DocBook,
> and this will be an official TC product.
>
> Slides and website are not official.
> Norm wrote new slides stylesheet.[6]
> Dick and Dave Pawson created a DocBook 5 website schema.
>
> ACTION: Norm to prepare slides and website schemas in 5.0.
>
>
> 9. 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
>
> RFEs to revisit for 6.0
> 1907003 biblioid content model too broad
>
> RFEs under discussion
> 2820947 Ability to transclude text
> 3035565 Allow sections at any level
> 3107140 aconym expansion inline
> 3156768 <result> tag
> 3383019 DocBook Music Notation
> 3384939 db.xlink.type.attribute is too narrowly defined
>
> New RFEs
> 3406169 allow multiple procedure elements in a task element
>
> Larry spoke in favor of this proposal. APPROVED.
>
> ACTION: Norm to allow procedure+ in task in DocBook 5.1.
>
> ACTION: Bob to add agenda item for next month:
> multimedia support in DocBook 5.
>
> -----
>
> [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-
> tc/201108/msg00012.html
> [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-
> tc/201108/msg00018.html
> [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-
> tc/201108/msg00001.html
> [4] http://norman.walsh.name/2011/10/03/transclusion
> [5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-
> tc/201108/msg00007.html
> [6] https://github.com/docbook/xslt20-
> stylesheets/tree/master/xslt/slides
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
>
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