Good morning, Saito, I too have reviewed your formatting comments.
At 2006-10-13 08:07 -0700, wrote:
>With regard to your comments about style, please understand that
>we are now using the OASIS DocBook templates to generate the HTML
>output from an XML original. In other words, the document itself
>(UBL-2.0.xml) has no inherent output format; the format is
>provided by the standard DocBook stylesheets as modified by OASIS
>for OASIS publications. Consequently, we no longer have control
>over the appearance of the document. For example, the placement
>of figure titles is dictated by the OASIS DocBook stylesheets, not
>by us. Therefore the formatting issues you raise must be
>addressed by OASIS for all of its DocBook-based publications.
It happens I am the one collecting requirements
for modifications to the DocBook-based publishing
of OASIS specifications, and I will make note of
your desire for the figure title placement to be
after the figure, and I will compare this
requirement with the other layouts available for OASIS specifications.
To date very little feedback has been reported
regarding the DocBook presentation of OASIS
specifications, and I would value any further
observations JPLSC may wish to make on the OASIS stylesheets used by UBL.
The current version of these OASIS stylesheets can be found at:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/DocBook/spec-0.4/
The version as used by the UBL-2.0.xml hypertext
document can be found in the db/ subdirectory of the UBL 2.0 release directory.
I anticipate releasing a revised version of the
OASIS stylesheets based on feedback received.
>I see nothing that would prevent the JPLSC
>from implementing its formatting suggestions in its own
>publication of the specification. I believe that this would apply
>even to the HTML version, as it, too, is just a generated artifact
>of the XML document. Perhaps JPLSC members such as Justsystem can
>approach this task as an interesting technical challenge.
Note that the JPLSC can utilize the stylesheet
modules provided in the db/ directory of UBL-2.0
and create your own customization layer. To do
this you would create, say,
UBL-2.0-JPLSC-html.xsl and import the
UBL-2.0-html.xsl stylesheet. Note there is a
parameterization of the placement of titles that
you can, then, specialize in your customization layer:
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/formal.title.placement.html
As Jon says, this would merely be your projection
of the standardized XML document in a customized presentation.
>With regard specifically to your comment about possible ISO
>publication, I agree that there are problems here, but they are
>much more extensive than perhaps you are aware.
Note a number of publishing problems you cite I
understand are related to figure dimensions,
which would probably simply require resampling
the diagrams at a different resolution. This
does not, however, address legibility, and future
revisions of the documents may require some
diagrams to be redrawn to address limitations in dimensions.
I hope this helps understand some of the issues you have brought to light.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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