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

[Paul Madsen <paulmadsen@rogers.com>]

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/security/CreatingXhtmlFormatFromOpenOffice :-)

Tom Scavo wrote:
> 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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