Re: Representativeness of implementors in HTML WG [Was: Use cases]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:
> I think that in this category you are missing another two groups of
> tools which are responsible for large chunks of a web content.
>
> One are various content management systems -- varying from open-source
> ones like Joomla, Drupal, ... to in-house systems used by all larger
> institutions or companies to produce content for their web sites.

Good point, didn't mention larger CMSes as a category. As you say, Drupal
is a significant player in this space, and HTML WG has Everett Zufelt, who
is the Drupal 7 Core accessibility maintainer.

http://cms.phpmagazine.net/2010/10/report_most_cms_sites_use_word.html

> The second group is content, usually documentation, generated from XML
> sources in some standardized format like DocBook, DITA or TEI using XSLT.

DocBook creator Norman Walsh is an HTML WG member. DITA and the DITA
Open Toolkit were produced by IBM, who have representation on the WG.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture

I'm not really sure what form TEI representation would take. TEI
seems to be managed by a series of academic institutions, who have some
overlap with HTML WG in the form of Oxford and Stanford universities.

http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/current.xml

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>  Jirka Kosek      e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz      http://xmlguru.cz
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>  DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing
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Judging by this sig, I think it's fair to count you as part of the
representation of the XSLT category on HTML WG. ;)

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Received on Saturday, 8 January 2011 12:41:57 UTC