OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

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      OASIS DITA Technical Committee Minutes
                Tuesday, 24 March 2009
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Minutes recorded by Kristen James Eberlein.


1. ROLL CALL
Quorum is present.


2. Approve minutes from previous business meetings:
*  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00055.html (17 March
2009)  
Motion made to approve minutes; seconded by Rob Frankland; motion carried
by acclamation.


3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
John Hunt will provide a report from the Learning and Training Subcommittee
next week.

4. Note fresh DITA 1.2 DTD upload from Robert Anderson
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00058.html (24 Mar)
Schema updates will be forthcoming.


5. ACTION ITEMS FROM DATA TYPES AND DEFAULT VALUES (ITEM NOW CLOSED)
Michael Priestley sent background information to Gershon Joseph; there is
an on-going dialogue happening with Mary McRae.


5. ITEM: Cross-references to Topicheads and Implicit Title-only Topics
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200901/msg00039.html (Eliot,
others)
Discussion deferred until Elliot Kimber is present.

Action: Eliot to resume discussion on the list to help drive for TC
closure.


6. ITEM: Hazard Statement Width
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200902/msg00029.html (Grosso
and ongoing)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00008.html (Kravogel
suggested actions) 
After a discussion of whether the issue was user error or a styling issue 
and whether the DITA spec should refer to the ANSI spec  moved, seconded,
and approved to have the spec contain language along the lines of setting
the hazard symbol width to be larger the hazard statement width is an
error; an implementation might (but need not) generate an error message,
and the an implementation might (but need not) recover from the error
condition.

Actions: 
1)	Chris Kravogel will revise the text of spec.
2)	Don Day will open a implementation page in the Wiki and start logging
issues for a future implementation guide. He will log this as the first
issue. 


7. ITEM: Mapref attribute resolution
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00007.html
(Anderson)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00057.html (Robert's
summary)
     o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00059.html
(Nevin's response)
     o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00061.html
(Ogden's response)
     o http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00065.html
(Robert's response)
     o
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200903/msg00068.html
(Ogden's response) 
Don Day asked Robert Anderson how close he thought we were to resolution.
Robert suggested that he will add another summary. Well keep the item open
and discuss next week.

Action: Robert Anderson will write another summary and send it to the
list.


8. ITEM: DITA Help Technologies Guide (DITA Help SC item for TC review)
* http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-help/documents.php
(Doherty)
The item has been withdrawn for the time being and so is closed as a
business item. Stan Doherty has contacted OASIS, and the review steps are
underway. Don Day asks that any other committees wait to further discuss
this item until the results of the OASIS review are available.


9. New ITEM: The Case for Aggregated Editing (EBD item for TC review)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200903/msg00014.html 
Steve Manning was not present on the call. Discussion deferred until a
representative of the subcommittee is present.


10. New ITEM: Editorial Style
This was discussed at Feb 24 meeting; is the sign-up page ready yet? 

Action: Gershon Joseph will follow through on this by setting up the
sign-up page.


11. New ITEM: Use of