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In article <23570@alice.att.com> jaap@alice.UUCP () writes:
>In article <23320D@erik.naggum.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
> > jaap <jaap@alice.att.com> writes:
> > |
> > |   [ Deleted ]
> > 
> > Sigh.  OSF is committed to use the work of the Davenport Group, and the
> > Davenport Group uses the CFCM work.  You can get more information about
> > the Davenport Group from Dale Dougherty <dale@ora.com>.  The Davenport
> > Group working documents can be FTP'ed from ftp.ora.com in the directory
> > /pub/davenport and subdirectories.  The material is also mirrored at
> > ftp.ifi.uio.no in /pub/SGML/DAVENPORT.

This needs a little clarification.

Davenport is not the uniform single body that this seems to imply.
There is a working group under the Davenport banner that is associated
with the CFCM.  There is a different working group also under the
Davenport banner that is using HyTime architectural forms to produce a
specification for documentation indexes, glossaries, and other
link-oriented-kind-of-stuff.  These are two different working groups
that are independent of each other.

OSF has not made an official statement of "commitment" to any
Davenport work as yet (or CFCM work either).  We are participating in
the HyTime working group, and would like to use the specifications,
but first those specifications need to get finished...  We are not an
active part of the CFCM activities right now (though we're trying to
stay in touch).  So, to be clear:  OSF has not made any commitment to
"use the CFCM work" via or independent of Davenport.  This isn't to
say that we won't -- just that we haven't made any commitment yet.


>So what?  Half of the world is committing itself to Davenport.  It
>doesn't prevent doing other things as well, at least, it apparently
>didn't stop OSF to specify the reference Semantic Markup Language
>(RSML) for technical documentation according to the report released in
>June 1992.

OSF created the RSML language before Davenport existed, so it isn't
surprising that Davenport "didn't stop OSF [from specifying] RSML."

We made RSML publicly available in June 1992 because of discussions
with CFCM.  They were pursuing a path which seemed to be consistent
with some of what we had done with RSML, so, CFCM and OSF felt that
it could only help the process to make RSML available for CFCM to
build upon, if that's what CFCM wants to do.

Please note that we didn't do RSML as a long-term "standard" solution
to manpage markup.  We see RSML as a short-term "stepping stone"
between our previous use of the regular manpage macros, and our future
use of the SGML solution that we're in the midst of finishing.

Fred Dalrymple

fred@osf.org
OSF
(617) 621-8855