[jats-list] Re: future of Preview XSLT

[Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tommie, belated thanks for the response from August.  In looking through 
the list archives, I see that you explicitly told us all of this in May 
on a different thread, and then in August I wrote again on this new 
thread asking all of these questions again.  :(

Anyway, two more suggestions that might be of interest to the wider 
group as well:

1) Author names are currently not rendered with any delimiting 
punctuation to separate various authors.  Use a browser that can do 
browser-side XSLT (not Chrome) and look at the references at 
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nasirg/bmj_html.xml

2) It would be nice if there were arrow icons in the references list 
that, when clicked, take you back to the point in the document where the 
siglum appears.  See how Wikipedia handles endnotes.

In a suggestion that I submitted in May, I said we would be rendering 
articles conforming to the Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Set, 
but we have since decided to restrict ourselves to the Journal 
Publishing Tag Set.  So support for rendering of Journal Archiving and 
Interchange is no longer a priority for us.  However, putting the 
stylesheets in a repository to which we could all contribute fixes would 
be helpful, assuming that we can solve IP issues around work created by 
US government employees as part of their job duties (always in the 
public domain) versus works created by federal contractors like Mulberry 
(protected by copyright) and by anyone else contributing (protected by 
copyright).

Kevin

> Hi Kevin --
>
> With NLM's sponsorship we at Mulberry are updating the preview stylesheets and
> hope to release improved versions approximately when JATS 1.0 is approved and
> released. Among the new features will be support forward to JATS 1.0 and
> backward to NLM 2.3
>
> We appreciate your bug report, and all other reports of infelicities. We can't
> promise to fix everything but we will certainly try.
>
> And once we announce the new stylesheets we hope you will test, comment, and
> suggest improvements.
>
> -- Tommie