RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: HTML versions of CD-04

["Gilbert Pilz" <Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com>]

I'm not using the HTML templates as the WS-RX editors sub-committee uses
OpenDocument. You're not suggesting that we produce HTML or XHTML by
manually copying our specification text from the current .odt files, are
you?

- gp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:30 AM
> To: Gilbert Pilz; ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: 'Mary McRae'
> Subject: [ws-rx-editors] RE: HTML versions of CD-04
> 
> 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
> > 
> 
>