Re: Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML

I'm happy to collaborate on designing a joint DTD.  I have a suspicion that 
the header requirements are pretty different, but this could be 
modularized.  In fact, there's already a parameter entity in the XMLspec 
DTD that allows you to substitute your own stuff.  Please note that the 
latest XMLspec information is at the following locations:

http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/06/xmlspec-report-v21.htm
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/06/xmlspec-v21.dtd

(I think there may be something funny going on with the "latest version" 
links provided in the documentation, so stick with the specific V2.1 links 
for now.)

         Eve

At 09:48 AM 6/13/00 -0400, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote:

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

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Eve Maler                                    +1 781 442 3190
Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center    elm @ east.sun.com

Received on Tuesday, 13 June 2000 11:05:34 UTC