RE: [xacml] Oasis front page

["Hal Lockhart" <hlockhar@bea.com>]

In fairness, when we began in 2001, the opinion of XML experts (e.g. Eve Maler) was that the state of tools was not sufficiently good to make use of XML for specification creation. XACML 2.0 has been evolved directly from the prior versions. Converting a large formatted document from Word or PDF to XML is a sustantial, and potentially error-prone piece of work and I do not blame the editors for not having attempted it.

Perhaps we should discuss if this should be done for 3.0.

Hal

P.S. For those of us whose expertise is not using XML to create documents, it would be useful if OASIS could list free tools (or even commercial products) which have successfully been used to create and edit OASIS Specifications.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:26 PM
> To: Daniel Engovatov; Anne.Anderson@Sun.COM
> Cc: 'xacml'
> Subject: RE: [xacml] Oasis front page
> 
> 
> Oh, if only we could get all of our TC editors to use XML 
> instead of word processing applications! ;-) There is, in 
> fact, a docbook
> version complete with stylesheets and an XHTML version will 
> be made official shortly.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
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> Mary P McRae
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Engovatov [mailto:dengovatov@bea.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:12 PM
> To: Anne.Anderson@Sun.COM
> Cc: xacml
> Subject: RE: [xacml] Oasis front page
> 
> Ah.. thanks.  :)
> 
> D;
> 
> P.S. Being an XML standards body - maybe they should have had 
> adopted some schema for their documents. :)  Like W3C's
> /XML/1998/06/xmlspec-v20.dtd - they just generate the 
> specification document with whatever formatting they need out 
> of an XML
> document. (for example 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116.xml)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anne Anderson [mailto:Anne.Anderson@Sun.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:58 AM
> To: Daniel Engovatov
> Cc: xacml
> Subject: Re: [xacml] Oasis front page
> 
> Daniel and others,
> 
> We have not yet submitted the final, formatted versions of 
> the 2.0 files to OASIS for storage in their "official" 
> locations.  It is
> actually quite a lot of work to fix the formats, make sure 
> the naming conventions are consistent, update references to the new
> names, etc.  Tim and I are close to done, but we keep finding 
> new formatting errors.
> 
> Anne
> 
> Daniel Engovatov wrote:
> > 
> > OASIS front page needs to be updated to list 2.0 XACML - it 
> currently 
> > links to 1.0 on the side bar on the right.  Same on 
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php
> > 
> > D;
> > 
> > 
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