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Subject: RE: [legalxml-econtracts] The CSS issue (was .. Req #106)
As one of the authors of the Court Document spec, maybe I can chip in something here. It is correct that the Court Document XML spec is not particularly concerned about how the XML representation is turned into a presentation image. However, an issue has surfaced with the XML Court Document spec that is very similar to the one here - whether the XML representation of the court document should serve as the "official" document of record or whether some presentation image should. The problem with using the XML representation as the official document is there are many different ways to present it and it is difficult (if not impossible) to assure that the presentation used and envisioned by the sender/filer will also be the same presentation received and used by the recipient. There are differences in browsers and, I am told, in XML-to-PDF applications that makes this a problem whether a CSS, XSL-T, or XSL-FO stylesheet is included with the court document as a set of "presentation instructions." The idea that the presentation image a lawyer sends to a court will turn out not to be the same presentation image that the court views is anathema to most lawyers. For that reason, the Court Filing TC is now envisioning that the official "court document" filed (i.e. exchanged) with a court will be a .pdf image rather than (or perhaps in addition to) the "unofficial" XML representation. While Jason's description of the approach taken by the XML Court Document spec is correct, I believe that approach does not necessarily solve the "what gets exchanged" issue that we now are focusing on in the context of contract documents. That said, I also believe there is a place and a need for a standard XML representation of contracts as long as the possible limitations are kept in mind. Rolly Chambers -----Original Message----- From: Jason Harrop Sent: Sun 4/20/2003 8:57 AM To: legalxml-econtracts@lists.oasis-open.org Cc: Subject: Re: [legalxml-econtracts] The CSS issue (was .. Req #106) . . . I think the proper role of our standard is to represent the contract in XML, in the same way the Court Document DTD represents a court document. See http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-courtfiling/documents/cour t_document/index.shtml The Court Document people had no need to be too concerned about how the document gets from the XML representation to some presentation image, and neither should we. . . .
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