On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:34:14PM -0500, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
I'm hoping Jim (or someone else) can clear up something for me. If I create a TEI document, use it to create a regular 8-bit ASCII file and valid HTML file, then submit all three to the whitewashers ... will they post all three (assuming the ASCII file clears GutCheck and the HTML clears the W3C validator)?
No. Not today, and, I hope, never.
If not, why not?
This is exactly what was starting to happen, and what we backed away from. In the scenario you quote, where you create the HTML and text from the XML, how do I check the XML? Take your word for it that you didn't change anything when creating the HTML? If you could create the HTML, why can't I? What happened in a few cases was that I spent many hours checking each of the three files separately, and if I find a markup error in the HTML, how do I relate that back to the XML, and . . . it was just a nightmare. Not a good way to go. I think we were all clear on this much: the XML way forward is to develop a reliable conversion method that the WWs can use to produce the other files. I really, honestly, do think that until we've got that (and why shouldn't we have it?? what's so unreasonable about it?) we should hold off. Which is what we agreed. A moratorium. That has lasted a lot longer than any of us would have believed at the time, because despite the apparent reasonableness -- to me, at least -- of the request, we still ain't got it. jim