Re: Copyright issue

Eve helps maintain the xmlspec DTD (she is subscribed to spec-prod).

My understanding is that the latest xmlspec DTD allows for putting
the copyright info into the document.  I guess Norm should pull the
code that auto-generates the copyright info in the stylesheet.

As far as © and such, this is XML.  Why don't we use numeric
character entities rather than defining these entities in the DTD?
(I'm not opposed to declaring them in the DTD, but I'm not sure I
see the point.)

I would rather avoid having to have declarations in the internal
subset.  After all, the idea of the xmlspec DTD is to be the common
DTD for these things, so it would be nice to put all that's necessary
into the DTD and avoid modifying the internal subset.

paul

At 10:23 2001 05 17 -0700, Jonathan Marsh wrote:
>Norm, I've been using my own XSLT stylesheet for xmlspec for a while instead of the official one, mostly because early beta versions of MSXML3 were missing features that prevented the "official" stylesheet from running.  But I ran into a problem trying to get the XInclude last call published - the stylesheet added boilerplate.  Besides the fact that this boilerplate was outdated according to pubrules, Dom objected to the lack of copyright info in the XML source itself.  We pulled the XML version because we didn't have a timely solution to these problems.
> 
>I'm now updating to use xmlspec.xsl, and find it has the same problems:
>1) xmlspec.dtd has a <copyright> element but it doesn't allow the markup required by pubrules.  The pubrules should provide xmlspec boilerplate as well as html boilerplate.
>2) xmlspec.xsl overwrites this markup with boilerplate.
>3) the xmlspec.xsl boilerplate is obsolete.  This means lots of specs (most notably the XML Schema recs) have obsolete copyrights in them.
>4) xmlspec.xsl embeds the copyright boilerplate within the header template so it's difficult to override it.
>5) xmlspec.dtd doesn't have an equivalent to <abbr>.
>6) xmlspec.dtd doesn't allow markup (specifically <abbr>) inside <loc>.
>7) &copy; and &reg; aren't defined in xmlspec.dtd, although arguably all instances should use them.
> 
>All these problems can be solved in the document's internal subset and an overriding stylesheet (which I've just done for the next XInclude version, samples available), but since each of these problems affects every XML-sourced spec published on the W3C site, it would be nice to extend xmlspec.dtd and fix xmlspec.xsl in a central location.
> 
>Would you be willing to work with me and the W3C pub team to resolve these issues so we can start posting XML version of our specs again?
> 
>Thanks!
>

Received on Thursday, 17 May 2001 15:46:42 UTC