Re[2]: [cgmo-webcgm] Changes to XCF chapters

[Benoit Bezaire <benoit@itedo.com>]

Hi Lofton,

I don't want to complicate things, but I have to say that I don't like
the passing of HTML code around without a repository.  I'm afraid we
will loose work that way.  A check-in/check-out would be nice to have
but we don't have one.  So my personal feeling on the matter is that
there should be one person taking the wording (in plain text) and
pasting it into the draft and doing the formatting.

However, if I'm the only one thinking this way, I'll go along.

A compromise might be to break the draft into several documents (one
per chapter) and circulate those (i.e., they wouldn't circulate very
much).  I dunno, it might be that breaking the spec into several
documents is as much work as pasting the latest proposals into it.

PS: It's not that I don't want to do the edits, it's that I don't like
our primitive setup very much.

Thoughts?

-- 
 Benoit   mailto:benoit@itedo.com
 

Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 2:12:11 PM, Lofton wrote:

LH> Hi Benoit (& Dave) --

LH> At 11:15 AM 1/11/2005 -0500, Benoit Bezaire wrote:
>>[...]
>>We have been talking about an XML companion file architecture for some
>>time now. Dieter and I had the action item to write it up. We're
>>aiming to have it done before the Munich meeting.  Here's the first
>>part... Given the spec is currently structured, we don't have "one"
>>XML companion file chapter.  So first things first, Section 5. WebCGM
>>XML Companion File, needed more description. We have to provided
>>detailed information on each elements and attributes, this is what
>>I've tried to do here. There are two things that I haven't done in
>>this section yet (I think they should go here), that is to explain why
>>the DTD is flat, and to expand the explanation of the metadata
>>extensions a bit.  There was already something, but I think we should
>>attempt to add some more and clarify.  So here is my suggestion for
>>our new Section 5.  Lofton, please advise on how to proceed with the
>>spec editing?

LH> Until I am out from various admin burdens like CGMO Inc dissolutoin, I
LH> would like continued help on Chapters 5 and 6.  I.e., I would like someone
LH> else to own each one for a little while longer.  So far, you own Ch.6, and
LH> Dave has owned Ch.5 (mostly DTD now).

LH> To spread the fun around, I would like to suggest that Dave continue to own
LH> Ch.5 for now.  He would therefore:

LH> -- take the HTML source for current Ch.5 from WebCGM20-D2,
LH> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/cgmo-webcgm/download.php/10420/WebCGM20-D2.html#DOM


LH> -- integrate your proposed prose text (body of your message),

LH> -- pass proposed enhanced text (HTML source) for D3 back to me.

LH> Dave, does that sound acceptable to you?  (And to you, Benoit?)

LH> Cheers,
LH> -Lofton.

LH> (P.S. -- the body of Benoit's proposed XCF text is at:
LH> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/cgmo-webcgm/email/archives/200501/msg00007.html
LH> )