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Subject: RE: [ubl] Comments to UBL V2.0 main specification (CS sanity check 4) by JPLSC
Bosak-san, > Perhaps JPLSC members such as Justsystem can > approach this task as an interesting technical challenge. My colleague of Mori-san realized Saito-san's request as attached PDF file which is formatted by Justsystem's Ichitaro. Best Regards, -------------------------------------- Kunio Ohno Justsystem Email: kunio_ohno@justsystem.co.jp > -----Original Message----- > From: jon.bosak@sun.com [mailto:jon.bosak@sun.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:08 AM > To: saito-yukinori@fujielectric.co.jp > Cc: ubl@lists.oasis-open.org; kenichi.hayashi@mitsubishicorp.com; > kunio_ohno@justsystem.co.jp; kueno@iea.att.ne.jp; naitoh@is.oit.ac.jp; > N.Itoh@otsuka-shokai.co.jp > Subject: Re: [ubl] Comments to UBL V2.0 main specification (CS sanity check > 4) by JPLSC > > Hello Saito-san, > > Thank you very much for your comments! > > 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. > > Please note that printed output is not a deliverable of this > specification. The UBL 2.0 specification is an electronic > hypertext. The PDF file included in the package exists only to > fulfill a procedural requirement of the OASIS process and is not > intended to be printed out. I hope that future versions of the > OASIS DocBook stylesheets will allow conformant applications to > produce usefully formatted PDF representations of some of the > specification, but this is an item over which we have no control. > > On the other hand, it seems to me that the fact that UBL 2.0 has > no "official" printed representation means that the localization > subcommittees are free to create any format they like for printed > localized versions. 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. > > 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. For example, ISO > guidelines for the names of files submitted for publication are > not the same as ISO guidelines for the names of files to be > published on CD. In fact, the entire ISO publication process > appears to be based on the requirements of certain proprietary > applications. I believe that ISO itself must adopt standard data > formats and bring its publication processes into the new century > before we can hope to achieve alignment, especially in the case of > large electronic hypertexts such as UBL 2.0 that have no official > paper representation. > > Regarding your other comments, with the close of the ballot > yesterday, UBL 2.0 is now an OASIS Committee Specification and > cannot be changed. However, the issues you raise appear to be > ones that can easily be addressed in UBL 2.1, and we will > certainly keep your input on hand for use when we begin the next > minor revision cycle. > > For UBL 2.0, the next steps are (1) localization and (2) the > creation of the Support Package, beginning with the meeting next > month in Singapore. I will be grateful indeed if the JPLSC > contributes the level of quality and leadership it gave to UBL 1.0 > localization! > > Best regards, > > Jon > >
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