1--- 2title: UTS #35 Splitting 3--- 4 5# UTS #35 Splitting 6 7Strawman here for discussion. 8 91. Divide up the spec by functional lines: 10 - Dates and Times 11 - Numbers & Currencies 12 - Collation 13 - ... 14 - Misc. 15 - Other supplemental data 16 - Supplemental metadata 17 18Important features 19 20- Collaboration 21- Many authors 22- Cheap tools, accessible to everyone 23- Easy to edit. 24- Must be able to snapshot. 25- Stylesheets (or equivalent mechanisms) are critical. 26- ... 27 282. Options. 29 1. Use HTML, but break into Part1, Part2, .... Still have to muck with tagging; non-WYSIWYG editing. 30 2. Eric strongly recommends docbook (see http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookAuthoringTools). 31 3. Ask Richard Ishida about how W3C documents work. [Mark] 32 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. 33 34 The release would consist of taking a snapshot of the site, copying to different number (eg ldmlspec2.1) 35 36 4.1. There is a *rough* prototype: 37 1. http://sites.google.com/site/ldmlspec/home?previewAsViewer=1 38 2. http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/dropbox/mark/LDML.1.pdf 39 3. http://sites.google.com/site/ldmlspec/home 40 41 4.2. Discussion 42 1. Mark to look at whether we can make a copy for a snapshot of a version. DONE (easy to do) 43 2. Advantages: 44 1. any of us can edit easily 45 3. Disadvantages: 46 1. Numbering couldn't be within chapter (eg Chapter 2 section 1 would be 1.) 47 1. Could only approximate the TR format. 48 2. CSS doesn't yet work. 49 50