Re: [ubl-hisc] First cut at distillation of Phase 0 layouts

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

In attendance:

   Zarella Rendon
   Micah Dubinko
   G. Ken Holman

Micah reported on the input side.  The Phase 0 work is postponed until 
later in August.  Tools as developed may work out-of-the-box with Phase 1 
and 2, but this needs to be tried to be proven.  More work on that 
later.  Micah will look into an XSLT 2.0 re-jigging of the work done to 
date making it simpler, based on lessons learned with the first go-around.

Zarella and Ken discussed the output site.  Suggestions for the layout 
instance include the XPath address, formatting of mixed content (e.g. comma 
separator in address block), and Cartesian co-ordinates of boxes (using top 
left as row 1, column 1).

Action:  Ken to embellish layout instances ASAP, Zarella to prototype 
transforms with Ken's embellished files.

No meeting next week, the following week is the Ottawa face-to-face, and 
the week following that has no meeting.  The next HISC meeting is August 23.

. . . . . Ken

At 2005-07-26 17:19 -0400, I wrote:
>Hello fellow UBL HISC members,
>
>I've just posted a ZIP of 8 layout descriptions for the Phase 0 documents:
>
> 
>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/13782/layouts-20050726-2050z.zip
>
>This is only a first cut and is not complete, but it is a start for 
>Zarella to contemplate how this information can be incorporated using an 
>HISC namespace into a DocBook+HISC instance that captures a formatting 
>specification that we publish as a standard.
>
>Then, an XSLT stylesheet (again written by Zarella) will take this 
>DocBook+HISC instance and transform it into a pure DocBook instance that 
>can then be formatted into the published formatting specification HTML 
>that is hyperlinked in the UBL 2.0 deliverable.  The DocBook+HISC instance 
>will also be hyperlinked in the UBL 2.0 deliverable.  No information 
>should be duplicated; the pure DocBook instance that uses the DocBook 
>stylesheets to produce HTML should have in DocBook vocabulary "formatted" 
>the raw layout information found in the embedded HISC vocabulary.
>
>I, in turn, as a representative stylesheet developer, can take the 
>DocBook+HISC instance and write a stylesheet to distill out the 
>information found in the HISC namespace.  This reproduces the attached 
>structures, from which I should be able to mechanically produce an XSL-FO 
>stylesheet.  If I can do this, then other product developers using other 
>technologies should now be fully equipped to write their implementations 
>of our HISC specifications.
>
>What is missing in the attached structures are all of the XPath addresses 
>from the existing specifications.  I'm going to try and do that tomorrow, 
>but thought for the purposes of tonight's teleconference that I should 
>post these so we can talk about the process in concrete terms instead of 
>just the abstract terms we have used so far.
>
>In parallel, Zarella can work on the DocBook+HISC framework documents and 
>XSLT transform to pure DocBook, while I work on the DocBook+HISC transform 
>to pure HISC information for stylesheet development.  At some point, we'll 
>have to actually merge into candidate DocBook+HISC instances, which will 
>then be the subject of maintenance until the time we assemble the final 
>deliverable.
>
>. . . . . . . . . Ken


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