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.
• …

1. 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.