XP Mail Archive: RE: XP> New XHTML-Print Version

RE: XP> New XHTML-Print Version

From: GRANT,MELINDA (HP-Vancouver,ex1) (melinda_grant@hp.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 12:20:55 EDT

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    I've been thinking some about the document organization question, and I'd
    like to float a proposal:

    We replace the current specification document with a family of three
    documents:
            
            1. An XHTML-Print specification. This would not include the CSS
    requirements or tutorials that are in the current spec. A rough first pass
    example is attached.
            2. A CSS-Print specification, ala CSS-Mobile recommendation and
    CSS-TV draft proposal. I believe the W3C CSS group has indicated their
    interest in helping to develop this spec.
            3. A specification describing the
    application/vnd.pwg-xhtml-print+xml MIME media type. This would tie all the
    requirements together, pointing to the XHTML-Print and CSS-Print specs,
    adding the JPEG requirement, multiplexed discussion, tutorials, etc.

    Motivations:

            1. Since we're using W3C-based standards, align our approach with
    that taken by the W3. This will make it easier for people familiar with w3
    standards to quickly assimilate the mapping to printing.
            2. It will also facilitate conversations and interactions with
    members of the w3.
            3. The current name, XHTML-Print, isn't really accurate since it
    includes much more than just XHTML.

    Thoughts?

    Melinda

    -----Original Message-----
    From: don@lexmark.com [mailto:don@lexmark.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 1:19 PM
    To: xp@pwg.org
    Subject: XP> New XHTML-Print Version

    Since we have a long term goal of moving the XHTML-Print work to the W3C, I
    have
    converted the Word document to HTML in the style of the W3C.

    Please review:

    http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print/HTML-Version/XHTML-Print.html

    and let me know what you think. I have not started the work of considering
    how
    to split the document into an XHTML part and a CSS part yet because I think
    we
    need to discuss if that is the right move to make. That discussion should,
    of
    course, be on this list.

    Please identify any errors in the HTML version (getting all the cross
    references
    to the Bibliography was a challenge!!) as soon as possible. Use at least
    Netscape 6.1 or IE 5.5 to see the correct styling.

    Thanks!

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