David Crossley wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
2) when we detect some other source format then its
input plugin will transform to xhtml2 (e.g. the
Apache document-v* formats). Even html and xhtml1
could be input plugins, though the TR document
has them happening in the core.
The TR needs to change then. The only thing that should be in core is XHTML2
3) Step 3 Filtering adds more xhtml2 content to
the overall structure.
Now at what stage does our process transform from
the internal xhtml2 to some presentation format,
for example HTML4. The current TR document shows
that Step 4 is that point.
I interpret it like that too. Step 4 is the output plugins stage, i.e.
transformation to the final rendering language.
This step is misleading in the TR because it is called "viewing" it has
nothing to do with viewing (that is step 3). Perhaps we should change
the title of this stage to "Translation".
Today while answering this email and reading that TR doc,
i had the idea to review the name of each Step to make
it very clear.
I could not decide on a name for Step 4. The closest
choice was "Windower" ... creating a window on the
whole thing* through which gain the view. The "view"
is bigger than the window.
* The "thing" is the XML stream, model, structure, whatever
we call it.
Windower is good. If we think if the other common use of the term
"window", i.e. a window on a desktop, it provides the definition of a
visual organisation of a "thing". The actual look and feel of that
window is dependant on a subsequent theme. In other words, it is the
same as what we have here.
I would like to edit this TR doc, but i am not sure about
the file naming or the format.
site-author/content/xdocs/TR/2004/WD-forrest10.html
Going to copy that to TR/2005/WD-forrest10.html
and continue with the raw HTML format with embedded style.
I'm not sure about that.
Should i delete the 2004 or leave it?
The W3C have a header in their TR's that say "The latest version of this
TR is available from ....". Perhaps we could follow their model and add
such a header. The URL would not be dated and we will use the LM to
ensure it points at the corret document.
Ross
