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        Minutes of the OASIS DITA TC

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Recorded by Dick Hamilton

DITA TC Wiki: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FrontPage

8:00-8:05 PT Roll call

- Quorum reached.

- Regrets: JoAnn Hackos, Stan Doherty, Chris Nitchie, and Scott Hudson 

STANDING BUSINESS:

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Approve minutes from previous two business meetings (4/14 and 4/28):

 - Both seconded and approved.

Announcements:

 - Demo of ditaweb scheduled for May 11, 9am eastern time. Email Kris

   to get an invitation. The demo will be recorded and available.

 - Updated content on Titania Delivery, including draft comments

   - https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201504/msg00200.html (Nitchie, 29 April 2015

 - New member: Eric Sirois, IXIASOFT

    

BUSINESS:

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1) Action items

   Action items from 14 April 2015

        Eliot: Add troubleshooting to ditabase document-type shell (Completed)

        Kris: Talk to Mark Myers about peer maps and new learning maps

        Chris: Topic about linking and @format and @scope 

   Action items from 28 April 2015

        Robert: Clarify with OASIS what needs to be in the comments for the XML grammar files

        Eliot: Remove @keyscope from reltable-related elements (Completed)

        Robert: Update spec to remove @keyscope from reltable-related elements

2) Report on status of working draft:

   - Style sheets and transformations: no change

   - Content: Robert and Kris are working through key scope

     comments. Many in the last 15 hours.

      

3) Targeted reviews progress:

   - Request for opportunity to find the disposition of changes.

     Can be difficult to find changes in ditaweb, but every comment

     is assigned a disposition, which is noted in ditaweb.

   - Keys are a difficult topic, and it may require additional review

   - Discussion of the topic of key spaces. Is the term needed? There

     is a key space manager with X-Metal, and the concept can be helpful

     to implementers and possibly to users, but is it needed in the spec?

     Term was not in the 1.2 spec.

4) New item: Cascading of  and  in maps

   - Should  and  cascade in a map? Spec is inconsistent.

   - Robert Anderson, Bob Thomas, and Don Day suggest that they should not.

   - TC agreed by consensus

   

ACTION ITEM: Robert Anderson: Revise spec to show that  and 

                              do not cascade.

5) New item: Ontology wording

   - Jim Tivy: May not be able to do an ontology with subjectScheme, but

     current spec wording implies that it can. Maybe wording should use

     "thesaurus" rather than "ontology."

   - Kris: Suggested that we soften the wording to avoid this implication.

ACTION ITEM: Kris and Robert: Will reword to avoid suggesting that DITA can

                              be used to completely manage an ontology.

6) New item: Use case for key scopes within subjectScheme:

   - Kris has a case. Suggest we defer discussion until Chris Nitchie

     can attend. Several people expressed concerns about further

     overloading key scopes.

7) New item: Extending subject schemes:

   - Robert: Have wording on how to extend a scheme. For example,

     you might have a map for server products and one for software.

     You could merge the maps. However, the normative text says

     there should be a "winning" definition. This case only appears

     in an example. Question is, do we want to make this normative?

     Robert's thought is that this would be difficult to use in

     practice. Suggestion is to remove the non-normative example.

   - Kris: not 100% confident that this isn't mentioned somewhere

     in the normative content.

     

ACTION ITEM: Kris: will talk with Suite Solutions and IBM on how this

             is or isn't being used. Will also check to see if there

             is anything in the normative text that defines this.

8) New item: Need to include a "Domain constraints integration" section

             in the XML grammar files?

   - Kris: should we do this, and is it possible at this time?

   - Agreed that we should do this if it can be implemented. Defer to

     next week to include Eliot in the discussion, since he will need

     to implement this.

Other items continued to next meeting

9:00 PT Close 

        

-- Mr. Richard Hamilton
        
    

    
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