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Subject: Legal Blob
In order to achieve some of the aims of the Vision Statement, it seems that it's being proposed to have two simple elements -- one for a legal blob of text and images, and one for the single container in which it is located. The requirements for such a legal blob container seem to include: 1. A blob container must be able to contain blob containers 2. All other requirements applicable to a blob are equally applicable to their container, eg captioning and indentation requirements, with one exception: a blob container may not contain or reference any text strings or images that comprise the content of the contract. I remain concerned that the choice of this architecture means that a DTD used by DTD-driven editors will not show anything beyond "Legal Blob" and "Legal Blob List". From a technical perspective, it's unclear about the effect that the proposal will reduce my development requirements, but at least it has the redeeming virtue of establishing the functional requirements for anything said to be a variant of a Legal Blob or a Legal Blob Container. This sounds so much like SGML Arch Forms, I'm sure though with the thought to implement via XML Schema's single inheritance facility, however there are other ways. As mentioned, a multitude of DTDs could be written, each with the necessary Arch Form attributes encoded as FIXED; I suggested on the call that a national level of DTDs is quite appropriate to accommodate different cultural words -- this is the standard way, and writing a transform would not be hard. Secondly, we could and should investigate Modular XHTML as one way of achieving the desired quick, cheap, and assured wide applicability to non-legal document types, that is, to those non-professional documents that contain legal blobs of information. Building on prior art -- such as Modular XHTML -- is much smarter than the present course.
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