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hi Roger and all, On Thu, 25 May 2023 19:57:31 +0000 Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> wrote: > Dear Specification Writer, > > Please stop writing specifications that cannot be parsed/processed by > software. Please stop formatting your specifications as Word and PDF. > Instead, use a format that is amenable to machine processing. The XML format > is ideal. We want to analyze your specifications. We don't want to spend > dozens of hours screen-scraping your Word/PDF documents. > I'm reminded of my https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/choice-of-docs-formats/ and https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/#why_xml . > If you simply must persist in writing Word/PDF documents, then please write > in a consistent way so that we can screen-scrape without having to write > special case code. To illustrate, in one of your specifications you provide a > bunch of tables with data; each table has many rows. In some tables you > reference a note. Here's a row with a note reference: > > 119 Approach Route (1) Note 1 5.7 > > Here's another row with a note reference: > > 52 SID Ident (1) (Note 1) 5.78 > > Why did you embed Note 1 within parentheses in the second case but not the > first? That's an example of not being consistent. Such inconsistencies make > it difficult to do screen-scraping. Please be consistent. If at all possible, > write a parser to parse the data that you embed in your specification. This > will immediately inform you of any inconsistencies. > > Thank you, > From the people who must read, understand, and analyze your specifications > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/C-and-CPP/bad-elements/ It’s kinda, sort-of… pretty much… quite… awesome I tell you - awesome! Got it? It’s kinda awesome! Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
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