UTS #35 Splitting

Strawman here for discussion.

1. Divide up the spec by functional lines:

• • Dates and Times

  • Numbers & Currencies

  • Collation

  • ...

  • Misc.

  • Other supplemental data

  • Supplemental metadata

Important features

• • Collaboration

  • Many authors

  • Cheap tools, accessible to everyone

  • Easy to edit.

  • Must be able to snapshot.

  • Stylesheets (or equivalent mechanisms) are critical.

  • ...

2. Options.

1. Use HTML, but break into Part1, Part2, .... Still have to muck with tagging; non-WYSIWYG editing.

2. Eric strongly recommends docbook (see http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookAuthoringTools).

3. Ask Richard Ishida about how W3C documents work. [Mark]

4. Use Sites for the subdocuments. We've done this in ICU, and it makes it easier to edit, and thus easier to add new material.

The release would consist of taking a snapshot of the site, copying to different number (eg ldmlspec2.1)

4.1. There is a rough prototype:

• • 1. http://sites.google.com/site/ldmlspec/home?previewAsViewer=1

    2. http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/dropbox/mark/LDML.1.pdf

    3. http://sites.google.com/site/ldmlspec/home

4.2. Discussion

• • 1. Mark to look at whether we can make a copy for a snapshot of a version. DONE (easy to do)

    2. Advantages:

       1. any of us can edit easily

    3. Disadvantages:

• • • 1. Numbering couldn't be within chapter (eg Chapter 2 section 1 would be 1.)

         1. Could only approximate the TR format.

         2. CSS doesn't yet work.