DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 January 2011
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 at
01:00p EST (10:00a PST, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+,
022:30p India+) for 70 minutes.
1. Roll call
Present:
Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Nancy Harrison, Scott Hudson,
Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh
Regrets:
Jirka Kosek
Absent:
Gershon Joseph
2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 16 February 2011
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items
a. Norm to develop a proposal for maintaining the DocBook websites.
WITHDRAWN
b. Norm to publish an online version of DocBook 5.0 doc.
CONTINUE
c. Norm to add namespace usage policy to the official docs.
CONTINUE
d. Jirka to ask the mailing list for feedback on the
transclusion proposal.
COMPLETED
e. Norm to respond to RFE 3107140, acronym expansion inline
COMPLETED
6. Linking in assembly.
Please see Larry's latest proposal. [2]
Larry summarized the proposal.
The basic relationship is bidirectional.
Directional relationships can be implemented using linking="targetonly"
or linking="sourceonly".
He described hierarchical and navigational path relationships too.
The list relationship generated much discussion.
ACTION: Larry to clarify list relationship in the proposal.
7. Transclusion in DocBook.
Please see Jirka's updated requirements [3] and proposal [4]
Postponed.
8. Decision about Larry's help example in assembly and @type proposal.
Postponed. Larry and Bob to track down the latest info and
repost it.
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
1679665 Add better support for modular documentation
2820190 add a topic element
2820947 Ability to transclude text
3035565 Allow sections at any level
3107140 aconym expansion inline
New RFEs
3146537 HTML forms elements are missing from DocBook 5 schemas
Norm says the HTML form elements were in a customization layer
in DocBook 4. We should probably also do a similar customization
layer for DocBook 5.
ACTION: Norm to respond to the RFE.
3150303 Allow filename inside contrib
The TC looked at the use case, and at potential other additions
to contrib. It was proposed to add just filename. APPROVED.
3156768 <result> tag
The TC was generally favorable toward adding a result element
to step and procedure.
ACTION: Larry to create proposed content models to include result element.
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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201012/msg00009.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201012/msg00007.html
[3] http://docbook.org/docs/transclusion-requirements/
[4] http://docbook.org/docs/transclusion/
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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