- From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:21:02 -0500
- To: David Orchard <david.orchard@bea.com>, Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
DaveO & Jonathan, SUMMARY I don't think the style sheet approach will work. I recommend we continue as is. EXPLANATION I've looked over our Part1 spec to think about how we might simplify the presentation to the reader. At present, I don't think a style sheet approach that would expand or contract the text is feasible. The main issue is that each section has both a subsection on the properties of that component, and a subsection on the mapping from the XML infoset to those properties. For example: http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl20/wsdl20.html#Definitions_XMLRep and http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl20/wsdl20.html#Definitions_Mapping Much of the content of those subsections is fairly boilerplate, merely repeating what is evident from the pseudo-schema above. But the problem is that they aren't ENTIRELY boilerplate: both of these subsections have meaningful, non-boilerplate text mixed in with (boring) boilerplate text. It might be possible to factor out the meaningful, non-boilerplate text, but I'm not sure we could reliably ensure that no meaningful text ever crept back in, so I'd be wary of using a style sheet to hide parts. I don't see an easy solution to this problem, so at this point I suggest we continue as is. -- David Booth W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
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