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

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Jim,

 

Yes agreed - we're talking apples and oranges here.

 

My need is immediate in the "now" of doc processing hell - where PDF and iText offer a workable solution ; -)

 

I'd also say docstandards-interop is also a misnomer.

 

What the intent here is to provide an open XML document representation that allows content sharing in a systematic and predictable way.

 

Perhaps a better TC name is contentexchange ?

 

Thanks, 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: "Earley, Jim" <Jim.Earley@flatironssolutions.com>
Date: Tue, April 10, 2007 3:05 pm
To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>, "Dave Pawson"
<dave.pawson@gmail.com>
Cc: <docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org>

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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