RE: [docstandards-interop-discuss] documents or data.

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

Jim,

Just to further clarify - my focus is:

d. Person to Machine to Person workflow

where the machine interposes validations and optionally automated content packaging that is then person reviewed later.

In this solution mix - I'm seeing the person is using some template to guide their content creation - and that is then stored in a known XML format (DITA + xhtml + extensions?) - so machine processing is then tailored to those templates and applies rules to crosscheck that content provided. After that the content is packaged up and made available for downstream person review / actions.

What's nice about this is that the content creation by the person - can use their familiar tool (Word, PDF, et al) - but the actual template in that tool creates and stores the content in the open XML format directly - not the vendor format.  This approach completely removes the need to transform markup - since its directly created in the target open syntax at source.  Subsequent machine processing can then provide presentation at point of use formatting.

DW

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


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [docstandards-interop-discuss] documents or data.
> From: "Earley, Jim" <Jim.Earley@flatironssolutions.com>
> Date: Wed, April 11, 2007 12:58 pm
> To: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>,
> <docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org>
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Agreed. Option B, I believe, is the focus of this TC.  From my
> perspective, the problem
> space is bound by "narrative" XML document standards (DocBook, DITA,
> ODF, TEI, etc.)
> that are designed around "conventional" publishing/document metaphors
> like headings,
> lists, tables, images, and so on.  
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jim
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.pawson@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:44 AM
> To: docstandards-interop-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docstandards-interop-discuss] documents or data.
> 
> Reading a blog or two today and I wondered which way the readership of
> this list
> is leaning.
> http://drmacros-xml-rants.blogspot.com/2007/04/xml-documents-vs-xml-data-packages.html
> 
> Is the subject of this TC, the data that is, more likely to be
> 
> a. Machine to machine.
> b. Person to person.
> c. Both
> d. Some mix.
> 
> 
> My prejudice said b, but without any rationale.
> 
> Anyone else care to declare a bias?
> 
> regards
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave Pawson
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