From patrick@durusau.net Thu May 24 04:34:26 2007 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:32:44 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: A concordance for DIS 29500 To: Dave Welsh , Doug Mahugh , Frank Farance , Jerry Smith , Jon Bosak , "Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E" , Norm Walsh , "Lynne A. Price" , Rex Jaeschke , Richard Barber , Robert Weir , Steve Carton , Tim Schoechle , "Mason, James David (MXM)" , Kevin Trainor , Eduardo Gutentag Reply-to: patrick@durusau.net X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1180006377-40ea000c0000-F3fpwQ X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.10.100.8:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: unknown[66.110.197.207] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1180006377 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client X-ASG-Orig-Subj: A concordance for DIS 29500 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at insimail.com Greetings! After sleeping on it (yesterday was a long day), I think I can better articulate the text that would be necessary for a useful concordance of DIS 29500. 1. Remove all non-normative material. (Non-normative material being perhaps interesting or even useful for readers, but not really all that useful in terms of evaluating the normative text.) 2. Remove all duplicate definitions/descriptions. (Actually should simply have a section reference where the duplicated portion now appears, that is keep the attriubte name but not the description/definition.) 3. Remove the parent/child tables. (Again, not really useful in a concordance.) Given the document model used, I can't easily do all those tasks with XSLT so I am hoping that someone will volunteer to produce such a text (with line breaks and the section numbers appearing in the plain text) for use by the committee. It is probably the only way we are going to be able to get a handle on the use of the controlled vocabulary for shall, should, etc. Serious review of a standard of this size, if that is the goal of this exercise, cannot be had without isolation of the normative text for review. (Other people may or may not be interested in the non-normative text. I don't particularly care for non-normative text as it is distracting but since it is non-normative, I can't get real excited about it, even if it is wrong or mis-leading.) Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Patrick@Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!