Re: [xslt-conformance] Spreading the Work

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

At 01/10/24 16:18 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote:
>Some background and a question...

Thank you, Lofton, for your evangelizing!

>In the latter category is UAAG.  In both cases, I consider our genericized 
>XSLT processes and framework to be one of a very few good approaches -- 
>comprehensive, end-to-end, and reasonably automatable -- that can be 
>looked at and even picked up (in parts or in whole) by others.

Wonderful ... we went through the specific process of "genericizing" our 
framework specifically for the purpose of the leveraging our efforts by 
others.  I would hope that the spirit of our organization "Advancing 
Structured Information Systems" would allow the model that we have 
developed by exploited by anyone and everyone.

Of course as part of the goal of the long-term "advancing", the reference 
to OASIS would need to be preserved as the model we have developed gets 
used elsewhere.  It would be unfortunate to lose the link to the origin 
where these ideas were developed.  I hope that those wanting to use our 
model recognize the usefulness of preserving the links to OASIS so that 
people will find future accomplishments related to these areas.

It has been a *long* but fruitful development process within our committee 
and we are anticipating an imminent release of our accomplishments to date 
for public review.

>The question was asked, "can we borrow from the XSLT work?"  My opinion 
>was, "not a problem".  This seems implied by section 2.1 on our home page 
>(which btw has a dead link on "completed products").

(thanks ... Carmelo, could you please tidy that up with some verbiage about 
something coming soon?)

>But I said that I'd verify that the XSLT TC has no problems with it.  I 
>have indicated that a first "pilot" public release is pending (I hope this 
>was also okay), aimed at progressing toward the assembly of the XSLT suite.

Yes, and this pending release includes the documentation of how we 
configured the generic processes to be XSLT-specific, hopefully to draw 
comments on the generic framework in addition to the specific XSLT suite 
itself.

>Btw, one thing that is particularly appealing to UAAG is our handling of 
>discretion.  UAAG 1.0 (CR draft) has a conformance space where optionality 
>or discretion is pervasive, for how UAs may meet 
>checkpoints/guidelines.  Therefore, they were pretty keen on the concept 
>of per-UA customizable suites, to match the particular accessability 
>solutions chosen by the individual UAs.

Great!  David and Tony did some excellent work in this area, and I hope 
that others find it useful.

..................... Ken

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