Subject: RE: (dsssl) DSSSL Documentation Project - up for adoption From: "Mason, James David (MXM) " <mxm@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:18:41 -0500 |
Ian, you're not the only one frustrated. > It frustrates me greatly that all the XML standards are freely available > at www.w3c.org... but I can only look at the titles at the ISO site... > > This is a running battle that I've been waging with the bureaucrats in ISO for the better part of two decades, long before there was a Web or a W3C. I don't want to rehash old history, so I won't. But my response, fully supported by the original editors of DSSSL, has been to make all the source materials for the ISO standard (and not just this one but everything my committee has done since then) available first on FTP and later on HTTP. The full SGML source to the DSSSL standard is at http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/ The DTD: http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/standcom.dtd PDF of the standard: http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/dsssl96f.pdf (front matter), http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/dsssl96b.pdf (body) Anything the DSSSL community wants to do to publicize the existence of these materials is fine with me. I just ask that you NOT mirror this material anywhere. The ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Unofficial Home Page is at http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm; links to sources and other data about several of our standards are at http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm#standards As for the copyright to this material, see http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm#copyright. My excuse for this action is that the U.S. Taxpayers have paid (many $100k) for this material to be produced, so it ought to be open to them. I must, however, say that this is all unofficial. The official SC34 Web Site is at http://www.jtc1.org. That is indeed under password control. It also doesn't have DSSSL in any electronic form, so even having the password wouldn't do any good. Take a look at some of the other standards you can't get in electronic form anywhere else: HyTime: http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/wg8/document/1920.htm (an elaborate hypertext archive prepared by the editors) Topic Maps: http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0129.pdf We're doing some other standards that will get the same treatment, several related to Topic Maps and then our answer to W3 Schema, DSDL (Document Schema Definition Language), led by James Clark and Ken Holman, with co-conspirators like Makoto Murata and Rick Jelliffe. DSDL will include RELAN NG and Schematron (with a place saved for W3 Schema, if they dare put their thing out for the scrutiny it gets in ISO). Jim Mason James David Mason, Ph.D. Y-12 National Security Complex Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 P.O. Box 2009 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8208 +1 865 574 6973 Chairman, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/ornlsc34oldhome.htm DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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