- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:39:41 -0400
The newest version of the microsection spec-editing tools have been made available: http://wiki.github.com/html5/spec These tools, microsplit and microjoin, are capable of: * Taking Ian's latest HTML5 spec as an input document and splitting it up into microsections. * Re-mixing, removing and adding microsections specified from another source (for example: RDFa, John Foliot's summary suggestions, etc.) * Producing one or more output specifications (such as Ian's HTML5 spec, HTML5-rdfa, HTML5-johnfoliot-summary, etc.) This process: * Does not impact Ian's current editing workflow. * Empowers additional editors to modify the HTML5 specification without stomping on each other's changes. * Enables alternate HTML5 specifications to be authored while automatically updating the alternates with Ian's spec changes. * Is currently used to produce the HTML5+RDFa specification. * Provides a mechanism that can be used to generate specification language that is specific, and that can be used to form consensus around the HTML5 specification at the W3C. * Enables thoughtful and well-mannered dissent. There is even a pretty picture that describes the workflow: http://wiki.github.com/html5/spec Anyone is free to clone the repository, use the tools, generate remixed/updated/altered specifications and propose them as alternatives. I am seeking thoughts and suggestions about these tools - how they might help or hinder, as well as improvements that should be considered. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.1 Released - Browser-based P2P Commerce http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/
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