[jats-list] 4. The reason(s) you think JATS works

["Alexander Schwarzman aschwarzman@xxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To add to what's already been mentioned...
1) It seems to me, one of the less appreciated and apparent reasons
that JATS works (or, in my opinion, is more successful than, let's
say, TEI or DOCBOOK) is that in the STEM community, compared to the
Social Sciences' or Humanities' communities, there have been (a) more
consensus and (b) more support/accountability from funders .

2) Another -- more technical -- reason for JATS success is that it is
seamlessly compatible with many technologies; most importantly, with
the XML family of technologies, i.e., XSLT, Schematron, and XQuery.

3) Finally, the built-in customization design principle making it easy
to create a tag subset or a tag superset was absolutely brilliant. I
find the whole Swiftian Big-Endian/Little-Endian controversy about
Greenification of Blue, JATS Lite, etc. quite amusing -- one can
always create a subset that suits one's need.

--Sasha

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