Re: [security-services] CD prep tips for other editors

["Tom Scavo" <trscavo@gmail.com>]

Now that we have a wiki, guess where the useful content of this thread
belongs? ;-)

Tom

On 4/17/07, Paul Madsen <paulmadsen@rogers.com> wrote:
> additional tips
>
> 1) After saving as HTML from Open Office, close OO before you try to
> process the saved HTML with Tidy.
>
> Tidy can't take it as input if still loaded in OO.
>
> 2) an XHTML 'warning' is not the same as an 'error' - this is critical
> to remember :-)
>
> paul
>
> Scott Cantor wrote:
> > Since Tom asked, and the HTML situation is so joyously fun, I thought I'd
> > provide some tips on this...
> >
> > Basic doc prep for a WD -> CD is just changing some boilerplate to say
> > Committee Draft and changing the doc name to sstc-<title>-cd-<draftnum>
> >
> > To create the Voting Member's List for the Appendix, cut and paste from a
> > recent CD, and then cross check against this page:
> >
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/membership.php?wg_abbrev=security
> >
> > You list everybody except the ones labeled "Member".
> >
> > Finally, to wrestle Open Office to the mat, you can either Export to XHTML
> > if you have no graphics and want an unreadable document, or you can go
> > through these steps:
> >
> > Save As HTML.
> > Use the Tidy utility to clean it up and convert to (mostly) XHTML.
> >       http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
> > Finally, run it through the W3C validator page, or some other web site, to
> > find all the remaining XHTML violations and fix them.
> > Rename the file to an xhtml extension.
> > Zip up with the graphics.
> >
> > The end product will be valid, but it won't be readable in a browser except
> > Firefox, if you keep the extension xhtml. Use html and you'll get font mess
> > ups.
> >
> > In neither case will the HTML product be usable as a spec. So I don't know
> > what the point of this is, but until OASIS changes this rule, there you have
> > it.
> >
> > -- Scott
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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