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

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

In a word, yes :-)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patil, Sanjay [mailto:sanjay.patil@sap.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:52 PM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org; Gilbert Pilz
> Cc: ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: HTML versions of CD-04
> 
> 
> Mary,
> 
> So I take it that not all the formats may be compliant with 
> the templates. Depending upon the tool used, only the format 
> native to that tool can be expected to be compliant with the 
> template, for example, only the .odt format may be fully 
> compliant in our case.
> 
> -- Sanjay
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, Aug 15, 2006 12:29 PM
> >To: 'Gilbert Pilz'; mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> >Cc: ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> >Subject: RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: HTML versions of CD-04
> >
> >Heavens, no! In general, there's three different toolsets 
> people use to 
> >create
> >specifications:
> >
> >a) word processing applications (for which MS Word and OpenOffice 
> >templates are
> >provided)
> >b) XML vocabularies such as DITA and DocBook
> >c) HTML
> >
> >Now I have to go back and re-read your original message -- I
> >*thought* what you
> >had said was that you were starting with the HTML template in OO - 
> >using OO as an HTML editor. After re-reading that's not what 
> you were 
> >talking about at all so I'm going to take my fingers off the 
> keyboard 
> >now because clearly my brain is frazzled.
> >
> >m 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Gilbert Pilz [mailto:Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com] 
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 3:13 PM
> >> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> >> Cc: ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> >> Subject: RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: HTML versions of CD-04
> >> 
> >> 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
> >> > > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >
> >