Re: [jats-list] Re: future of Preview XSLT

["Beck, Jeff (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]" <beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,


We've received the Preview Stylesheets from Mulberry for HTML and FO
rendering of articles, and we plan to release them on GitHub before
JATS-Con - probably sometime next week. We will send the details to this
list.

Having them available on GitHub gives us the opportunity to do two things.
First, it should be quite easy for any user to make a fork from the
distribution and customize the stylesheets for their own journal(s). This
is our intention for the Preview Stylesheets - to act as a basis for
starting to build a renderer. Our goal is not to build a final perfect
HTML or page view of articles, because the requirements for that will be
different for every user.

Releasing on GitHub also will greatly facilitate others sending us bug
fixes and suggested improvements (3pull requests2) and our being able to
evaluate and incorporate them. This will be very useful, but may also
require a good bit of management on our end.  It will be important that
these pull requests only include bug fixes or upgrades that everyone
wants, and not styling or preferences that we don9t want to impose on
everyone.  We will see how it goes.


Jeff Beck
beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




On 10/3/12 2:53 PM, "Kevin Hawkins" <kevin.s.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>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