Beginnings of a new stylesheet library for UBL 1.0 documents

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Hi folks!

I've completed the stylesheets for the UBL 1.0 Committee Draft Order 
document type in the new generation of Crane's library.  I'll start working 
on the other seven document types once I get feedback from this.  This 
follows our published formatting specifications.

Fabio, can you please run the XSL-FO through xmlroff?  It is a total 
redesign and new use of the formatting objects than in the first 
library.  There is a "raw/" directory documented in which you'll find a raw 
XSL-FO file as if it had been transformed, so you need only work with 
it.  It has both the cover page and a continuation page (which is why I had 
to redesign it).

Eric, I can't yet create any EAN stylesheets without some formatting 
specifications and sample XML instances for your document types (all I've 
got so far is some schemas), but I did achieve what I set out to do based 
on your initial phone call to me so many months ago: create an importable 
stylesheet fragment for the UN Layout Key for each document to be exploited 
by multiple XML vocabularies.

Jean, I also haven't had the time yet to write the UNeDocs stylesheets 
based on the files that you gave me, as I've been focusing on the UBL 
developments in Hong Kong (some exciting open-source software from Hong 
Kong University).  These will come, though I suppose since there already 
are XSL-FO stylesheets for that project that it isn't a very high priority 
for me to make a set.

Please go to the "Free resources" section of my web site linked from our 
home page noted below in my trailer.  The first section of the resources 
page points to the UBL and UN Layout Key stuff.

I'm looking forward to your feedback on the utility of these stylesheets as 
I've structured them for the Order, as that is the pattern I plan to follow 
for the other document types.

I've also just announced this on ubl-dev to get some outside feedback.

Thanks much!

....................... Ken

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