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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 3 July 2007

Chaired by Don Day Recorded by JoAnn Hackos

The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 3 July 2007 at 08:00am PT for 60 minutes.

1. Roll call

We have quorum.

2. Approve minutes from previous business meeting: (26 June 2007)

Accepted by acclamation. [Don moved; Chris Kravogel seconded]

3. Business:

ITEM: Discussion of #12048 -- expanded header for reltable

EH has not updated this as yet. Deferred to next meeting.

ITEM: Discussion of #12052 DITA ArchVersion

Approved by acclimation. RA moved; AH seconded Discussion about the .dita and .xml extensions. Improves the use of xml:lang

ITEM: Discussion of #12050 Attributes for DITA elements

PG encourages everyone to read carefully.

The <lq> is a complex example. Add scope attribute to handle external and internal; depracate the type attibute.

The goal is to make the attributes appropriately consistent; should be more explicit about the deprecated elements or attributes.

<longdesc> -- deprecate; use as a subelement rather than an attribute for <longdescref> and <longdescscope>

add <longdescref> subelement to image add scope and format attribute

image with nested longdescref elements (format and scope) Would be parallel to <alttitle>

Need to update the <object> element

ACTION: Michael Priestley will update.

ITEM: Review the W3C XML Best Practice document

DD and RA to review Gershon and JoAnn will review for the Translation Subcommittee with input

JoAnn will send a note to Yves that we will review by 16 July

4. Announcements/Opens

None.

--Meeting adjourned at 09:00 PT--