Re: [xml-dev] XSL and related specifications

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>]

On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 14:30 +0900, l@tlo wrote:
> Richard Ishida gave me a contact at the W3C, so maybe we would take
> some time to discuss what would be relevant to change on that page?

Although Carine can probably change it (there's a makefile as i recall)
> > 

> > - an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics.

Could indeed say, an XML vocabulary (XSL-FO) for specifying formatting
semantics.

However, i’d be reluctant to suggest going too far. There are a ton of
pages that in principle could be changed - how many of the
implementations listed there or on the XQuery or XML Schema page are
still available, for example? - but as soon as you start modifying
those you end up with a ton of work that's open-ended.

The only useful answers i can see are to mark them as dead pages, or to
make new live pages with multiple people who can update them, maybe
wikipedia pages, and have the dead W3C pages point at those.

The primary purpose of the spec pages at W3C really was to help the
Working Group progress their specifications to Recommendations. This
wasn't a very good primary purpose, but internally, management was
constantly emphasizing it. I was always impressed by the accessibility
and internationalization activity pages going far beyond that, but
then, in a way, for them, the Web pages _were_ the recommendation, so
that was fundamentally different.
> 

liam

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