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

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

On 10/04/07, David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info> wrote:

> What I'm saying is use the model - not the specific rendering.

> So the real abstraction is the in-memory page object model that iText is
> using when it runs - just as the DOM is for XML inside a browser....


Which page please?
Your letter page? My A4 page?
My colleagues braille page?
The 'non page' used by a reader who listens to a document on tts?

A presentation based standard is weak before it gets any further.
And highly temporal.

I had a quick look at iText, and then thought of the big bucks we're paying
to get publishers files from PDF images into XML.

I don't like it David.

regards

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Dave Pawson
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