Re: [cellml-discussion] Representing the next version of the CellMLSpecification

2007-11-06 Thread David Nickerson
> Another option would be to have our own simple XML markup language along > with XSLT that produces DocBook (I know nothing about CWML - is it XML > based? Can it be transformed into DocBook?) The decision we made previously was to move from a custom XML language (CWML) to something more stand

Re: [cellml-discussion] Representing the next version of the CellML Specification

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Miller
Matt wrote: > Without making a choice at the moment, I want to highlight that the > following are probably the most important aspects to consider in any > of these: > > 1) can represent MathML in either content or presentation format and > can render MathML in the HTML output using image repl

Re: [cellml-discussion] Representing the next version of the CellMLSpecification

2007-11-06 Thread David Nickerson
> 1) can represent MathML in either content or presentation format and > can render MathML in the HTML output using image replacements instead > of expecting that the browser can render MathML (content or > presentation) is the use of image based equations still required? if people are using

Re: [cellml-discussion] Representing the next version of the CellML Specification

2007-11-06 Thread David Brooks
Hi Andrew, My vote is for DocBook - I used it a few years ago for a software manual without too many issues, and the tools have matured since then. Keep away from anything DSSSL based (including the DSSSL flavour of DocBook), otherwise we will create a dependency on needing a Lisp expert to

Re: [cellml-discussion] Representing the next version of the CellMLSpecification

2007-11-06 Thread David Nickerson
Hi Andrew, I think the ability to easily add and maintain internal cross references is pretty essential for the specification, although such things could probably always be resolved with some pre/post-processing script. Might be easier in terms of support if its an already existing feature of t

Re: [cellml-discussion] Representing the next version of the CellML Specification

2007-11-06 Thread Matt
Without making a choice at the moment, I want to highlight that the following are probably the most important aspects to consider in any of these: 1) can represent MathML in either content or presentation format and can render MathML in the HTML output using image replacements instead of e

[cellml-discussion] Representing the next version of the CellML Specification

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Miller
Hi, One issue which came up at today's meeting for people at Auckland involved with CellML is how we will represent the next version of the CellML specification. Having a 'source' format of the specification will make it easier for us to propose specific changes to the document and so will hop