LegalXML-eContracts committee draft

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

 Hello Dr. Leff,

  The HTML file now looks much better! It is still missing the list of editors which is required, and there are two
different dates on the cover sheet (Committee Draft 1.0 21 December 2006 and Committee Draft 1.0, 16 December 2006).

  We're going to need something a bit more robust for the location identifiers since the current filename would collide
with an updated version (such as a Committee Specification). We could do something like:

persistent: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-econtracts/CD1/legalxml-econ-specification-1.0.xml
current: http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-econtracts/legalxml-econ-specification-1.0.xml
previous: none

Also, the spec mentions multiple formats for the schema; I believe you previously sent a reference for RelaxNG files but
do the other versions exist as well (XSD, DTD?

If you can iron out the cover page details noted above in the XML / HTML, I can generate a PDF via web capture that will
meet the requirements for submission. Unfortunately I can't answer any questions related to Ken's DocBook tool suite as
I don't have a DocBook environment set up on my system at this point in time but I will forward your errors to him so
that they can get resolved at his convenience.

Regards,

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Laurence Leff [mailto:D-Leff@wiu.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:41 PM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Subject: (tr782B) 
> 
> THIS IS AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF AN ITEM BEING TO SENT TO YOU IN 
> HARDCOPY FORMAT VIA U. S. MAIL AT THE INSIDE ADDRESS BELOW.
> This will insure that you get at least one copy.  More 
> importantly, sending electronic copies of conventional 
> communications should eliminate flaming and other problems 
> that have been documented in regards to electronic mail.
>  
> .sp 1.0i
> ** PAGER: ** 309 367 0787
> 
> Ms. Mary McRae
> Manager of Technical Committee Administration OASIS PO Box 
> 455 Billerica MA 01821
> ** Fax cc: ** 978 667 5114
> 
> Dear Ms. McRae:
> 
> Thank you for pointing me at the OASIS Specification 
> Publishing in Docbook XML Draft 0.4 to complete the work on 
> the first specification
> for the OASIS Legal XML Member Section e-Contracts Technical 
> Committee.   
> You correctly diagnosed the problem that I was using a 
> different script than that suggested therein (the xmlto that 
> comes with Linux systems).
> 
> I created the HTML file using the instructions under "Offline 
> publishing,"
> being careful to have the
> XML source document type declaration SYSTEM identifier 
> poitning to the online reference and specifying 
> online-results in the oasis-configuration.ent file.
> It is now in:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/21832/legalx
> ml-econ-specification-1.0.html
> The XML file is now in
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/21833/spec.xml
> 
> However, I also tried the online publishing technique 
> (Section 3.2).  At the end of this letter I attach the error 
> message I received and the shell script I used.
> 
> The OASIS Specification Publishing in DocBook XML has a link 
> to a template/package.xml ant script (Section
> Five) to package
> the files.  That link does not resolve.  When I downloaded 
> and untarred the Oasis-specification-0.4.tar.tar, I could not 
> find the file either.
> Perhaps, it would be acceptable to continue to upload the 
> files individually to the Specification folder of our TC's web site.
> 
> I have called a teleconference of the
> OASIS Legal XML Member Section e-Contracts Technical 
> Committee for January 25th to discuss the authorgroup 
> metadata.  Please let me know what I should share with them 
> regarding the OASIS requirements and preferences for that.  
> You mentioned particular concern regarding the editor entry.
> 
> Again, thank you for the pointer which resolved many of my questions.
> (I will be trying the instructions to create the "print renditions" 
> as described therein.)
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> 
> 
> 
> Laurence L. Leff, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Computer Science
> 
> cc: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> 
> 
> 
> @toolman#/home/leffstudent/numchange/spec >MC.sh spec.xml 
> Fatal error reported by XML parser: unexpected character 
> after entity reference (found "=") (expected ";")
>   URL:    http://docbook.sf.net/release/xsl/1.69.1/html/docbook.xsl
>   Line:   6
>   Column: 126
> Error at xsl:import on line 21 of 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/
> DocBook/spec-0.4/stylesheets/oasis-specification-html.xsl:
>   unexpected character after entity reference (found "=") 
> (expected ";") Transformation failed: Failed to compile 
> stylesheet. 1 error detected.
> 
> ** Shell script used (MC.sh) **
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> SAXON_HOME=/opt/docbook/XEP/lib
> CP=$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$SAXON_HOME/saxon.jar:/opt/docbook
> /DOCBOOK/docbook-xsl-1.65.1/extensions/saxon653.jar:/opt/docbo
> ok/xerces-2_6_0/xercesImpl.jar
> /usr/bin/java 
> -Xbootclasspath/p:$NEW_LIB_HOME/xalan-2.4.1.jar:$NEW_LIB_HOME/
> xercesImpl-2.2.1.jar:$NEW_LIB_HOME/xml-apis.jar -classpath 
> $CP com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet \
>    -o $1.fo $1 \
>     
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/DocBook/spec-0.4/styleshe
> ets/oasis-specification-html.xsl 
> 
> 
> 
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