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

["Earley, Jim" <Jim.Earley@flatironssolutions.com>]

Dave,

Let me back up a minute to see if I understand where you're coming from, and
perhaps this might explain some of the lively banter we're having (honestly,
very good discussion):

Based on some of the threads so far, are the documents you're speaking of
making interoperable already in PDF? If so, iText is very useful indeed for
extracting XML content, and would in fact be a viable way of extracting
content if the original source content wasn't available.

If not, here's where I am having cognitive dissonance :)  If the content
we're speaking of is in DocBook, DITA, ODF, TEI or other XML standard, I'm
not sure how iText allows us to leverage that XML content in one of these
standards into another easily.

It sounds like we might be coming from two different angles at
"interoperability"?

Jim


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-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:52 PM
To: Dave Pawson
Cc: docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docstandards-interop-discuss] Clarifications / Scope of the
intended work?

Dave,
 
Exactly!  
 
I'm stating the goals - to create an XML document format for technical
document creation that combines DITA with ability to layout formatted text
and graphic content with basic content handling motifs - example xhtml - but
not to replace current page-orientated printed document storage formats.
Instead page handling and rendering is specifically left to rendering tools.
 
Support for content authoring and adherence to a formal document structure
model via XML is required.  By providing XML structured content - scripted
process handling is enabled.
 
DW

"The way to be is to do" - Confucius (551-472 B.C.)




	-------- Original Message --------
	Subject: Re: [docstandards-interop-discuss] Clarifications / Scope
of
	the intended work?
	From: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
	Date: Tue, April 10, 2007 2:36 pm
	To: docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
	
	
	On 10/04/07, David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info> wrote:
	> Ok - I've got it now - you are looking to create leap-frog
	technology - not
	> better ways of processing the current generation of technology
that's
	> fielded.
	
	No, I'm trying to understand the goals of this group. Solutions
follow
	problem
	understanding IMHO.
	
	regards
	
	-- 
	Dave Pawson
	XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
	http://www.dpawson.co.uk <http://www.dpawson.co.uk/> 
	
	
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