- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 14:12:56 -0400
- To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- CC: spec-prod@w3.org
Paul Grosso wrote: > > At 19:27 2000 07 21 -0400, Ian Jacobs wrote: > >1) The XML and DOM groups converge on a common DTD for > > their specs (at least a common core). Eve has said that > > she has little time at the moment but is interested. Philippe, > > I propose that you and Eve coordinate on this. > > > >2) Once we have that core format, we figure out how to map > > xhtml to it with an xslt style sheet. > > Can you elaborate on your expected document creation scenario. > I'm still confused as to why we'd want to spend time doing > (2) given (1). How do you forsee people actually producing > documents? Suppose that I don't want to use an XML authoring tool, just and html authoring tool. If I follow some rules (use of H1, some classes, etc.), I can still benefit from the scripts that generate the table of contents, index, etc. One day I'll start writing in the xmlspec DTD, but not today. So I want the scripts to be based on the xmlspec DTD with some transformations available today from xhtml to xmlspec. > The way Eve and I and Lauren Wood (DOM) and, I assumed, most > others generate specs to the xmlspec DTD is to author in XML > that conforms to the xmlspec DTD and then run various transformations > to generate the (x)html. In that scenario, I don't see how an > xhtml DTD to xmlspec DTD transformation has a useful role. For those of us who don't author (yet) directly in XML. > I'm suspecting you have a different scenario in mind, but I'd > like to hear more about it. - Ian -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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