Re: [office] 1.1 Introduction

[Patrick Durusau <Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org>]

Michael,

Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
<snip>

>>
>> second paragraph reads:
>>
>> The schema retains high-level information suitable for editing
>> document and is friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar
>> XML-based languages or tools.
>>
>> Comment: 'The schema retains'?, seems awkward, along with 'suitable
>> for editing document', which is true but it also supports creation of
>> documents as well. Note number error with 'document.'
>>
>> Suggest:
>>
>> The schema defines suitable XML structures for office documents and is
>> friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based tools.
> 
> 
> The "The schema retains" sentence actually has been taken from our 
> charter. Its purpose, in the spec as well as in the charter, is to 
> clarify what the difference between our schema and for instance XSL-FO 
> is. The later one could be used to save at least very simple office 
> documents, but these documents cannot be edited with office applications 
> again.
> 
> For this reason, I think if we change the sentence so that it sounds 
> better, we should keep the content (not the words) of the original 
> sentence in a sub sentence or as a separate sentence.
> 
> Do you have a suggestion for this?
> 

Sure,

Suggest:

***
The schema provides for high-level information suitable for editing 
documents. It defines suitable XML structures for office documents and 
is friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based tools.
***

The first sentence to capture the distinction you mention and the second 
to point out that it defines structures for office documents and is 
'friendly' for transformation.

Does that capture what you were looking for?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
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