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Subject: RE: [xslt-conformance] Issue regarding combinedcatalogue/documentationfile
I vote for 3. -----Original Message----- From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:54 AM To: xslt-conformance@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [xslt-conformance] Issue regarding combinedcatalogue/documentation file At 2002-04-25 11:59 -0400, I wrote: >... ways we can go with this: > > (1) - abandon DTDs and go with RELAX-NG (another OASIS technology) > - pro - all of the committee information delivered in a single instance > - con - no RELAX-NG DTD for HTML and other committees may be reluctant > to use RELAX-NG > > (2) - force users of our catalogue environment to create custom constructs > and DTDs that supplement the constructs already defined in the > catalogue DTD > - pro - all of the committee information delivered in a single instance > - con - other committees may be reluctant to create their own DTDs for > documentation constructs > > (3) - separate the documentation constructs from the catalogue constructs > in the delivery from our committee to the users of the test suite > - pro - easy assimilation of documentation into the environment > - con - all of the committee information delivered in two > instances, not > one, with the headache of not losing the file or not knowing > where the file can be found when configuring the catalogue, > etc. > >I propose we go with (3) and abandon the idea that everything can be >delivered in a single XML instance. Trying to implement (3) I've got a problem tracking the files that are necessary for a complete delivery. I don't want to hardwire the merge process to XSLT, which means the merge invocation cannot have any awareness of the documentation files. But I cannot see any way around it. Can we justify going back to (2)? I don't think we can. I think I'm obliged to add to the merge invocation batch file a "spec-specific section" that would be modified by another technical committee to refer to the documentation files in their environment. Please comment if you have any opinions on this as I would like the merge process to be turnkey. Thanks! .............. Ken -- Upcoming: 3-days XSLT/XPath and/or 2-days XSLFO: June 17-21, 2002 - : 3-days XML Information Modeling: July 31-August 2, 2002 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (Fax:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-07-1 Practical Formatting Using XSLFO XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML/OmniMark services, books(electronic, printed), articles, training(instructor-live,Internet-live,web/CD,licensed) Next public training: 2002-05-06,07,09,10,13,20, - 06-04,07,10,11,13,14,17,20,07-31,08-05 ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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