- From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 15:03:01 -0700
- To: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>, scott_boag@us.ibm.com
- Cc: spec-prod@w3.org, w3c-query-editors@w3.org, www-qa@w3.org
We already do some things to ensure consistency and correctness in our documents. We use xmlspec, which gives us consistency in markup and formatting conventions. We use conventions for our markup that allow us to do queries that extract the queries from the use cases or the XQuery spec, so that we can run them through a parser or test them against an implementation (this does require some manual intervention). We generate a parser from the same markup that generates the productions for the grammar in our documents. We have a Formal Semantics document. All of these things result in real effort, but we have decided that the quality gains associated with them justify the effort. Can someone do a mockup of how automatic tagging of assertions would be used, the level of correctness that could be guaranteed from this approach, the extent to which this constrains editors in describing features, etc? So far, I have not heard anything concrete enough to let me assess the cost/benefit. I don't know the cost, and I don't know the benefit. Jonathan
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