DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 June 2012
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at
01:00p ET for 30 minutes.
1. Roll call
Present: Nancy Harrison, Dick Hamilton, Scott Hudson,
Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh
Absent:
2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 18 July 2012
4. Review of the agenda.
Add items for OASIS website and eLearning Subcommittee.
5. Review of open action items
a. Norm to publish an XSD for 5.1 when it is finished.
CONTINUE
b. Norm to document XLink support in The Definitive
Guide for 5.1, including the concern about
translatable text in the title attribute.
CONTINUE
c. Scott to research the degree of flexibility in the
CALS table standard.
COMPLETED
6a. OASIS website. Jirka spoke with Chet Ensign at OASIS
about missing schema files. The solution they came up with
is to mirror the docbook.org directory on OASIS.
ACTION: Jirka to follow up on OASIS mirroring the schema directory.
6b. Publisher's Subcommittee
Scott reported that they will be meeting next week.
6c. eLearning Subcommittee
Scott reported that they will also meet next week. They are interested
in recruiting new members from the learning and training industry.
7. Google Summer of Code
Dick reported that they got information from each mentor,
all project are in progress, and no big problems so far.
Here is a link to the application [2]
8. Extended XLink support
This item is completed and can be removed from future agendas.
Norm will document in The Definitive Guide.
9. Revisit CALS table accessibility
The suggestion to add accessibility attributes to CALS tables was
submitted by Nathalie Sequeira [3]
Scott reported on his research into the CALS table standard. [4]
There were no objections to adding attributes to tables
for accessibility. Scott was not yet sure on the scope
attribute, and will settle that this week.
ACTION: Norm to integrate accessibility attributes
into DocBook 5.1.
10. Transclusion in DocBook
Norm's posting of W3C work [5]
Work in the W3C committee is progressing, and they will
have a draft soon.
11. DocBook 5.1 release
Will add table accessibility.
12. Review of Requests for Enhancement
To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line):
http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=XXXXXX
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
3491860 license tag
New RFEs
3530659 Schematron constraints for table
Proposal to allow admonitions in table was approved.
ACTION: Norm to add this change to DocBook 5.1.
3531365 allow toc at beginning of section
This appears to be a bug since toc was allowed in DocBook 4.
ACTION: Norm to fix this in DocBook 5.1.
3531929 Include Equivalent format Attribute Name to DocBook Elements
Request for new effectivity attribute to identify output type
(pdf, html, etc.) was viewed favorably. Larry suggested that
it be implemented in a way that is compatible with the same
feature in DocBook assembly.
ACTION: Larry to propose mechanism for this in DocBook 5.
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[1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201205/msg00003.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201203/msg00065.html
[3] http://n-faktor.net/featured/docBook_tables.html
[4] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201206/msg00004.html
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-xinclude-11-requirements-20120214/
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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