DocBook Technical Committee Meeting: 21 May 2001
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The DocBook Technical Committee has a one hour teleconference at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+)
on Tuesday, 21 Aug 2001.
The teleconference phone number is 888.296.1938 (304.345.7506
internationally). The participant code is 586310. Attendance at
teleconferences is restricted to members of the committee.
Agenda
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1. Roll call
2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting
3. Review of the agenda
4. Review of open action items
a. Norm to implement <co> in <screen> proposal[2]
b. Norm to write a concrete proposal for linking in DocBook 5.0
c. Norm to publish closed RFEs as a static page for historical reference
d. M. Sabrio to post metadata message on DocBook list
e. Norm to propose new "name and address" markup
f. Sabine to draft initial proposal for help topic authoring
g. Norm to add section.class parameter entity
h. Norm to implement the proposal to expanding the content model
of filename and certain other inlines
i. Sabine to post a summary of continuing discussions about the
content model of lists and procedures.
j. RFE 412476: Norm to make ProductName #IMPLIED
k. RFE 417671: Norm to add refsection element to refentry
l. RFE 423598: Norm to add FU for content models that allow BridgeHead
m. RFE 425730: Norm to create an SVG module
n. RFE 426382: Norm to allow SimpleSect inside Section
o. RFE 431412: Norm to document proc. exp. of RevHistory order
p. RFE 431413: Norm to query submitter (about event and eventhandler)
q. RFE 431415: Norm to add markup for host identifiers
r. RFE 431418: Norm to add typing to funcdef and paramdef
s. RFE 431419: Norm to add markup for FS type and partition
t. RFE 434439: Norm to add language attribute to fieldsynopsis et al.
5. Release schedule
Do we need a schedule for point releases? How often should we do them?
6. XML Character Entity distribution
Private conversation with ISO representatives confirms that ISO has
no plans to issue normative 8879 XML entity sets. (In fact, the
8879 entities are not normative.) Private conversation with Karl
Best suggests that forming a TC to publish the XML entity sets is
probably overkill. We can probably do it as a TC work product.
7. Charter update
The purpose of this committee is to develop and maintain the DocBook
family of specifications. In particular, this TC maintains the XML
and SGML DocBook DTDs, a suite of extension modules, and a simplified
authoring subset of DocBook. The TC may also support other schema
languages in the future and may develop additional modules and
derived document types.
The DocBook TC will also develop specifications based on previously
published standards for use in the XML version of DocBook and other
related XML specifications; the first such specification will be based
on previously published ISO 9573 entity sets (themselves an extension
of the ISO 8879 entity sets).
8. Review of Requests for Enhancement (RFEs)
Pending RFEs:
413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME (linking)
425730 Create an SVG module (waiting for SVG WG)
431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability (linking)
431413 RFE 121: add markup for signals
431418 RFE 128: typing and linking in funcdef (linking)
Open RFEs:
431858 non XML syntax
434838 add partintroinfo element
435466 %beginpage.exclusion; not used in dbpool
435518 Allow bibliography in refsect1
436067 splitting tech.char.class
436068 explicit grouping of used param entities
436072 Need for an infosdiv.contents entity
438332 Add optional Glossary to Set
439136 Allow literallayout in epigraph
439938 specify link destination for area
440081 No example for ReleaseInfo
440597 add svg to imagedata format enumeration
440667 Affiliation lacks CorpName
441883 endterm behavior in link
444337 epilogue in dtd?
451030 xref to block
451032 xref format subelement
[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200106/msg00003.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200106/msg00059.html
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The art of being wise is the art
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | of knowing what to
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | overlook.--William James