OASIS DocBook TC2

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 17 June 2009
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+,
022:30p India+) for 90 minutes.

Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.

This is the phone number for Wednesday's DocBook TC call:

Phone: +1-719-387-5556
 Code: 902213

The DocBook TC uses the #docbook IRC channel on
irc.freenode.org.  The IRC channel is used for exchanging
URIs, providing out-of-band comments, and other aspects
of the teleconference, so please join us there if at
all possible.

Agenda

1. Roll call
2. Accepting the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 15 July 2009
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

  a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed.

  b. Jirka to add schema comparison table to DocBook 5.0 Transition Guide.

  c. Norm to work with Mary to make Publishing Subcommittee
     schema a Committee Working Draft.

  d. Norm to work with Keith and Scott to update the OASIS committee
     site to make the Publishing Subcommittee Working Draft
     publicly available.

  e. Norm to put the new backwards compatibility policy in the spec.

  f. Norm to put the new backwards compatibility policy in the
     reference documentation.

  g. Norm will update 5.1 with changes to initializer
     content model.

  h. Norm to take a look at the inlines and make a proposal
     regarding RFE 2791288.

6.  DocBook 5.0 standards update.

7.  Publishing Subcommittee report.

8. Using a map for modular DocBook.

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 to be considered 
      1679665  Add better support for modular documentation  
      2770858  Add limited emphasis to ubiquitous inlines 
      2791288  add quote to corpauthor and gui elements 


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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200905/msg00009.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

Bob Stayton wrote:

>  b. Jirka to add schema comparison table to DocBook 5.0 Transition Guide.

DONE

See http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/#t.schema-comparison

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Hi Larry,

This is coming along nicely. I have some comments, many of which stem
from DITA use cases that are likely to apply to our users too:

- I like the use of xml:base on the wrapper 

Thanks for your comments Gershon!

The thought behind separating the resources from the structure is that 
it follows the IMS manifest model, where the resources can be flexibly 
managed apart from the structure, but still delivered in one complete 
package. This also allows the structure to be re-arranged without having 
to adjust the resources.

We don't want to "copy" DITA, but to enable capabilities beyond what 
DITA can provide. This is where the relationships is more powerful, IMO, 
than the reltable approach in DITA.

Best regards,

--Scott

Scott Hudson	
Senior XML Architect

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Gershon Joseph (gerjosep) wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> This is coming along nicely. I have some comments, many of which stem
> from DITA use cases that are likely to apply to our users too:
>
> - I like the use of xml:base on the wrapper 

Hi Scott,

Please see my comments inline below.

Cheers,
Gershon 



                                                

					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
                                                

                                                    
                                                        
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                                                Original Message-----
From: Scott Hudson [mailto:scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:43 PM
To: Gershon Joseph (gerjosep)
Cc: Rowland, Larry; Bob Stayton; DocBook Technical Committee;
docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] RE: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee
Meeting Agenda: 17 June 2009

Thanks for your comments Gershon!

The thought behind separating the resources from the structure is that
it follows the IMS manifest model, where the resources can be flexibly
managed apart from the structure, but still delivered in one complete
package. This also allows the structure to be re-arranged without having
to adjust the resources.


We don't want to "copy" DITA, but to enable capabilities beyond what
DITA can provide. This is where the relationships is more powerful, IMO,
than the reltable approach in DITA.

Hi Gershon,

sorry, I kind of slipped that in there. I was referring to the other 
part of the proposal that wasn't mentioned in the thread: