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Subject: Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
Great point Jamie! Ken Holman has done an amazing job with the DocBook environment - it's been through several iterations now - and it's almost foolproof. I'm hoping that the DITA environment JoAnn and Don have mentioned will create the same end result - eliminating many of the things that cause problems. It's not just the checking that's quicker, but using the DocBook environment makes it much harder to mess up. I think the key thing here is that unless a significant percentage of TCs would be taking advantage of it by authoring in a content and structure-based, rather than formatting-based, structured markup language, the development costs can't be justified. Mary On Apr 22, 2010, at 5:25 PM, James Bryce Clark wrote: > Hi, all. Mary, that's a *great* question that started off this thread. > > I have to agree with Rob W. about mandating a single file format at > first. OASIS spec formats are too diverse, today. > > The last time we discussed that in detail, a few years ago, the > perceived problem wasn't the availability of transforms. It was > tooling. Name a widely-available tool that (a) lots of > non-software-expert editors readily can use, and (b) outputs in all of > the alternative formats that a TC might reasonably want? > > Still, some single designated XML format probably could cover a large > *share* of cases. > > Instead of a mandate, maybe its accurate use could confer > preferential review speed, as Rob said. Or maybe an easier "pass" > based on parsing tools as Bob F. suggested. > > Imagine a system where your document must survive a human staff parse, > to start a CS vote; but you can self-help to first CD, simply by > passing an automated portal parse. > > Sort of a "Full Mary" at one level and a "Half Mary" at the other? > Might save some wear and tear on the real Mary & her team. And speed > things up. > > Regards Jamie
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