MEETING MINUTES -- 3 January 2006 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (Minutes taken by Alan Houser ) Date: Tuesday, 03 January 2006 Time: 08:00am - 09:00am PT DITA Technical Committee website: - Public: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita - Members only: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/ - Roll call - We have a quorum - Review/approve minutes from previous meeting: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200512/msg00022.html (Dec 20) Look ahead at upcoming special sessions--translation focus: Jan 10 Andrzej Zydron, follow-up on xm:tm and DITA. Jan 17 Yves Savourel on W3C ITS WG liaison with DITA Correction to minutes from previous (December 20, 2005) meeting: Missing action item. Robert Anderson was given action item to describe generated text processing with respect to translation. Minutes approved by acclamation. -------- Aside from Don Day on the importance of the upcoming special sessions on translation issues: "[The TC needs] to declare that we’re implementing industry best practices for DITA. As a TC we should come away with better understanding of work that needs to be done or liaisons that need to be established." -------- New business: The TC determined plans regarding face-to-face public or private meetings for three upcoming events: - DITA 2006, March 23 - 25, Raleigh NC This conference does not coincide with the regular Tuesday DITA TC meeting. DITA TC members may participate in a public conference session. - Content Management Strategies Conference 2006, April 3-5, San Francisco CA TC will hold regular Tuesday call-in meeting April 4. TC members present at the conference can dial in from face-to-face meeting. TC members will also be invited as panelists in a closing QA session. - OASIS Symphosium, May 9-12, San Francisco, CA This event provides opportunities to meet with other OASIS groups that have cross-over interests with DITA. Don will check with Carol Geyer on room time and availability. Motion to accept these plans, approved by acclamation. ----- Discussion: Discussion: Paul Prescod has raised clarity and ambiguity issues regarding how DITA constructs should be processed, as directed in the DITA 1.0 specification. - Specentry attribute: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200512/msg00032.html - Simpletable specializations: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200512/msg00029.html - Links in DITA Toolkit: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200512/msg00028.html Discussion concensus: Spec must be more explicit regarding semantics and expectations for processing. Issue is not limited to the above items. ------ Related comment to Architectural Spec -- wildcard filtering http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/200511/msg00000.html Don Day: Please inspect and respond on DITA-TC list. Action item for Robert Anderson -- create a root document for the discussion in the DITA TC area. ------- Resume review of "left off the list" and unnumbered proposals for 1.1 scope: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200512/msg00010.html #18 move @format and @scope into rel-atts (Robert Anderson) Low-cost change. Processing is already in place. Only problem -- may break specializations, but could be made backwards-compatible by duplicating the entity. ---- #31 Side-by-side implementation of DITA ids and xml:id Don Day: At the time [DITA was designed], xml:id was under discussion by W3C. Now accepted W3C feature. Recommend that we defer to 2.0. ----- #33 Move to a domain (depends on #32, topic domain unification, which has been accepted) Eric Hennum -- Shouldn’t make decision until we finalize other issue. Don Day: Should we merge w/ issue #32? EH -- Issues are related but separate. One is architectural, the other is vocabulary. DD -- Does this make a difference for 1.1? EH -- On the candidate list because somebody wanted to express syntax outside reference content. Recommend to keep on 1.1. Will resume discussion of item 33 week of Jan 17. (Jan 10 TC meeting is a special presentation). Meeting adjourned.