Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?

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Mary McRae <>
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2010-04-22T20:51:21+00:00
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Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
If only it would support custom schemas ;)

Mary 



On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:39 PM,  wrote:

> OpenOffice is free;)
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 22 Apr 2010, at 20:29, Mary McRae <> wrote:
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>> There's a few free XML editors out there, or maybe a handful of companies would like to make their products available for use by TC members.
>> 
>> Mary
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>> On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Frederick Hirsch wrote:
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>>> I see the benefit of automation of publication checking and tool driven production of various output formats.  This also might make useful templates easier to work with.
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>>> What about authoring tools, or would editors be working in ed/vi/emacs (not that all mind doing so)?
>>> 
>>> regards, Frederick
>>> 
>>> Frederick Hirsch
>>> Nokia
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:57 PM, ext Mary McRae wrote:
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>>>> Agreed. How would the chairs feel about mandating all specs be created in an OASIS XML format?
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>>>> m
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>>>> On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Bob Freund wrote:
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>>>>> How much of this review might be automated?
>>>>> might be a lot if we had an xml publication format.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Dave Ings wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> +1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This would really cut down on the iterative churn that seems to frustrate the people involved in the publication process. Great idea!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards, Dave Ings,
>>>>>> Emerging Software Standards
>>>>>> Email: 
>>>>>> Yahoo Messenger: dave_ings
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <graycol.gif>Hanssens Bart ---2010/04/22 09:02:30 AM---> Would you like us to review your specifications prior to TC ballots so you don't need to go back a
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> From:    Hanssens Bart <>
>>>>>> To:    Mary McRae <>, "" <>
>>>>>> Date:    2010/04/22 09:02 AM
>>>>>> Subject:    RE: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>> Would you like us to review your specifications prior to TC ballots so you don't need to go back and fix stuff afterwards?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That would be very helpful indeed, especially for new TC's / people submitting specifications for the first time...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bart
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