RE: HTML versions of CD-04

["Mary McRae" <marypmcrae@gmail.com>]

Hi Gil,

  The HTML templates are intended to be used in an HTML editor, such as XMetaL,
rather than a word processing application. There are several TCs that actually
author in HTML or XHTML. My guess is that you'd get odd behavior from following
the same steps in MS Word. As the person who checks such things, I expect that
any TC authoring in an office suite application would generate the HTML by using
the built-in utilities. No comments about the quality of HTML produced by any of
these applications are necessary :-)

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilbert Pilz [mailto:Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:20 PM
> To: ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: Mary McRae
> Subject: HTML versions of CD-04
> 
> So here's a fun little experiment:
> 
> 1.) Go to http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates and download 
> "OASIS Specification Template v2-0.ott".
> 
> 2.) From your desktop open the above template (this assumes 
> you have OO 2.0 installed). This will create a new .odt 
> document with appropriate boiler-plate etc. Scroll to the 
> bottom of the document and notice how the appendix section 
> titles are in 18-point, bold, blue Arial with the word 
> "Appendix" pre-pended.
> 
> 3.) Save this new document as HTML (for best results 
> configure OO to render to HTML 3.2).
> 
> 4.) Open the resulting HTML document with a browser and 
> scroll to the bottom of the document. Notice how the appendix 
> section numbers are in a normal-looking (not large, not bold, 
> black) font without the word "Appendix".
> 
> I've attached a copy of the HTML that is generated from the 
> above process.
> 
> I'm not saying that OASIS is responsible for OO's bugs. On 
> the other hand, if we are going to be required to produce 
> HTML, it would be helpful if the templates that we are 
> provided with produced documents that rendered properly to HTML.
> 
> - gp
>