Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML

As a Co-Chair of a joint IETF/W3C WG, I was thinking that it would be quite
nice if the W3C and IETF agreed on a common specification schema/DTD. (This
could make my life easier when I find a WYSIWYG XML/CSS editor I'm happy
with for editing specs! <smile>)

Marshall, the efforts at the W3C [1] to date have been informal within the
XML activity and on the spec-prod list [2]. However, the folks involved have
come up with quite a nice DTD [3]. What is the status of usage/deployment of
your Informational RFC on a schema/DTD for RFCs and have you seen [4]? Any
interest in harmonizing/subsetting/profiling? And then there's always the
XSLT option...

[1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/spec-mgmt.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/
[3] http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/06/xmlspec-report-19980910.htm
    http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/06/xmlspec-19980910.dtd
[4] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2629.txt

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Joseph Reagle Jr.   
W3C Policy Analyst                mailto:reagle@w3.org
IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair   http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/

Received on Tuesday, 13 June 2000 09:48:42 UTC