I updated our draft specification. Would people please review it and see if it defines the steps and what you reckon about the names and purposes. site-author/content/xdocs/TR/2005/WD-forrest10.html
Ross Gardler wrote: > 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. Content is the important thing, so i stuck with it. > >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. We are not publishing this document yet so no matter. Later. -David.
