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Subject: Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
[Sorry to be coming late to the party, been a busy few weeks. ] Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org> writes: > Agreed. How would the chairs feel about mandating all specs be > created in an OASIS XML format? That seems to make life more difficult for (some) editors and not much different for most readers. I think we'd be more likely to see usability gains if we mandated a single, normative output format. Specifically, I'd like to see XHTML with mechanically enforcable and enforced conventions. A RELAX NG grammar could check some conventions, Schematron rules others. At the end of the day, a "publication rules" checker might do some ad hoc analysis as well. This would make the published specifications uniform and accessible which seems like a better win for our readers than a selection of formats derived from a smaller set of input sources. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't dream of editing a spec in anything *other* than (a particular) OASIS XML format, but that's not going to be news to anyone :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Throughout history the world has been http://nwalsh.com/ | laid waste to ensure the triumph of | conceptions that are now as dead as the | men that died for them.--Henry De | Montherlant
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