- From: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Date: 17 Oct 2001 13:13:34 -0400
- To: spec-prod@w3.org
/ Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh wrote: | > - XMLSpec tag names are often HTML-derived so they tend to be shorter. | > (e.g. <p> vs. <para>, <att> vs. <sgmltag class='attribute'>.) | | I would say that's the job of the editor so we should not let us stopped | by this issue. Fair enough. | > - XMLSpec has more "special purpose" elements (e.g., <specref/>, | > <bibref/>, etc. where DocBook has just <xref/>). | | I would suggest to keep the XMLspec format here (and in general to always | prefer the "special purpose" elements over a general element). I don't know | about the XSL but the DOM generator is doing different manipulation depending | on the element (specref, xspecref or bibref). I tend to favor the other approach myself, allowing the link behavior to be determined by the thing it points to. But I don't feel very strongly about it. | > Q1: Are we willing to break legacy in significant ways? Could the | > XMLSpec doctype be made more DocBook-like and vice versa? | | This will force the DOM working group to revise its DOM generator and the | XSL for the DOM Test Suites but it is possible to do it. I'm waiting for | more feedback before asking the group directly. Yes, we definitely need more feedback. It's too early to start changing things :-) | > Q3: Can this be addressed organizationally? Could the W3C be persuaded | > to accept DocBook documents as specs? Could OASIS be persuaded to | > accept XMLSpec? | | As Dan pointed out, the W3C has no constraint on tools used to | produce as long as the resulting document HTML valid and conforms to | the W3C style. I don't think that all working groups are ready to | switch to XML yet unfortunately. We will need to ask/persuade the | working groups who are currently using xmlspec to switch to the new | format. That will probably be easier than persuading the working groups not currently using XML at all to start using it :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM | If you're strong enough, there *are* no XML Standards Engineer | precedents.--Scott Fitzgerald XML Technology Center | Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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