RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue Work of Documents Subcommittee

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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue Work of Documents Subcommittee

From: "Winters, Roger" <>

To: 'Rex McElrath' <>

Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:18:50 -0700 

Title: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue Work of Documents Subcommittee

Hello, Rex,

I'm glad you've taken initiative with this proposal. I realize there is much involved with which I am unfamiliar, but it seems this is exactly the work that should be done to help realize a long-standing goal, at least for some of the court clerks who got involved with LegalXML early on. 

Perhaps you or others can guide me in finding some introductory material for the less technically adept people, explaining some of the subject matter with which we may be unfamiliar, specifically:

In your modernization of my formula to "GJXDM -> Information Exchange Package + XSL Style Sheet and/or XSL Transform and/or XSL Formatting Objects = Human-Readable Document" - I have a high level familiarity with GJXDM, but not with IEPs or XSL Formatting Objects. I have a high level understanding only of the other elements (XSL Style Sheets and XSL Transform). 

I understand that part of the motivation is that in some e-filing implementations there are essentially two different documents involved submitted: a human-readable (e.g., PDF) and a data file for processing. This apparently creates a situation where it is a problem that the two might not be an exact match. While I agree this work should help solve that problem, I would think that the "norm" for e-filing would be a single document that includes all marked up data elements and whatever is required to present the document in human-readable form (e.g., appropriate style sheet), plus (of course) everything else relating to signatures, security, etc. 

You mention a deliverable in September, "a draft of a methodology to reproduce for other documents and refinement and expansion of the functionality of the methods used to create the first document package" - I think that directions in plain language will be among the most valuable items this project might produce. I'd like to use my writing and editing skills to help develop such materials--but I have to understand the subject matter first. Ultimately, the process has to be something easily explained to non-technical people.

Thanks again for getting this started.

Roger

Roger Winters
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