Re: Relax NG specs

[James Clark <jjc@thaiopensource.com>]

I agree this is an important issue.  I have been working on adapting my TREX
tutorial to RELAX NG, since this is something I can do relatively quickly.
Is this something we should release as the output of the committee, or
should I publish it independently?

I think the source for our documents should be XML, and we should provide at
least HTML and PDF representations of them.  I plan to use a home-brew
schema (with some special-purpose semantic markup) and generate HTML using
XSLT.

How accessible is the current TREX formal spec?  Is it too hard?  Do we need
something providing the same information as the formal spec but in an easier
to understand, less formal way (perhaps with the formalism in an appendix)?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Fitzgerald" <mike@wyeast.net>
To: "Trex" <trex@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: Relax NG specs


> This spec issue has not been addressed, though several meetings ago, James
> mentioned that we need to get going.
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> The questions in my mind are:
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> Authors. Naturally James and Murata-san are my nominations.
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> Forms. HTML? PDF? What of print? What editing tools? DocBook -> XSLT ->
HTML
> | XSLFO -> PDF?
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> Collaboration. How shall comments be recorded, tracked, incorporated or
> dispatched?
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> Reuse. Much material is already written on RELAX and TREX. Shall it be
> bundled or repurposed for RELAX NG?
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> Primer/tutorial. Shall we include a primer to get people doing something
> with the language quickly?
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> I think we would do well to make some choices sooner than later.
>
> Mike
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