Re: [docstandards-interop-discuss] Clarifications / Scope of the intended work?

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael.

On 10/04/07, Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com> wrote:

> The intent is to share document-oriented content between organizations. For example, DocBook, ODF, or DITA content - human-readable documents.

Or others commonly used for 'shared' documents?




> The purpose of the proposed TC is to identify the common denomenator, and to create mechanisms for identifying differences and commonalities within customized versions of the standards.

Are you (initially at least) constraining the TC work to XML based standards?


>So: we want to define ways to interoperate at the level of standards
definition, so that when people at the level of content creation hit
an interoperability problem, there's a clearly defined path for
solving it. IE, we want a standardized solution to cross-standards
problems - specifically those to do with sharing of content in
document-oriented standards such as DocBook, ODF, and DITA.

I'm still a little unclear Michael. Could you perhaps provide your
rationale for this?
I.e. define ways to interoperate  so that ......
Is the end goal a way for company A and B to access common data, or to get
from format A to B for human consumption, or so that documents laid down on
disk are accessible in n years time?
I.e. there could still be lots of 'why' answers even behind your clear terms?






> >So - I believe you are discussing formalizing mechanisms for the latter - PDF, xdoc, odp and other rich document formats using XML?
>
> Specifically we want to formalize mechanisms for exchanging content between organizations or applications that are using different XML document standards - so not PDF per se, but ODF, DITA, and DocBook, for a start, and hopefully others as we progress.


So the constraint is on XML sourced documents? That would / could include ODF
and MS OOXML etc?

regards


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