- From: Nico van de Water <nicovdwater@g...>
- To: xml-dev@l...
- Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:40:26 +0100
Dear Ben, dear list members,
Having followed the various discussions with great interest, let
me first briefly introduce myself so that you know where I am
coming from. I am Nico van de Water, Dutch<->English
translator, localizer, technical author and terminologist. My only
claim to fame in the XML field is that I have successfully
attended several XML and XSLT courses, and have started
accumulating my music collection in an XML file, which through
XSLT is then reworked into XHTML. Furthermore, I am an end-user of
XML documentation files, in that I translate them, rework some
XML-modelled linguistic tags in these files, use XML-based
translation standards such as TMX, TBX, etc., and find the world
of XML fascinating.
Having said that, I believe that one reason why XML is still
underused is that non-programming people like ordinary translators
cannot find or afford good, clear instruction material on all
things XML. I have colleagues who refuse to translate XML-based
material out of sheer fright, ignorance or embarrassment. So my
main plea for the newly initiated NextXML.org would be to include
meaningful examples, not necessarily for translators, but lucid
enough for novices like me and my colleagues to spark an interest,
to become useful, and to overcome this fear or embarrassment. This
may be a far cry from what many of you (especially very advanced
XML experts, gurus, developers, etc.) may have in mind, but for
information to be meaningful, it must communicate something.
I will probably not be able to contribute anything meaningful to
this "Next XML" discussion, but will follow it to the best of my
ability.
With thanks and best regards,
Nico.
Op 2010-12-05 12:43, Ben Trafford schreef:
1291549405.2836.326.camel@benslaptop"
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Given the productivity of the most recent threads that started with
James Clark's "XML vs the Web" blog posting, and the repeated suggestion
that we need a better place than this list for the work to move forward
to some sort of fruition, I've gone ahead and started putting that
together.
I registered NextXML.org just now, and have a server in place for it.
Obviously, we'll want some sort of wiki, and probably a version control
system in place.
What other productivity tools do people think we need? Any other
suggestions for this working space? Feel free to toss out ideas -- not
ideas about XML 2.0/3.0/whatever the heck it gets called, but what we
need in a working environment to ensure this isn't a round of xml-dev
navel-gazing.
Thanks!
--->Ben
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