So what would be a game-changer? Slightly more semantic markup. In the case of legislation, this means strictly adhering to a cohesive set of styles, where the styles are based on on a common pan-jurisdiction style catalog of some kind, and where there is even the most basic QA mechanism in place to make sure that the styles are being adhered to. The trade jargon for this is rigorous markup.

So what would be a game-changer? Slightly more semantic markup. In the case of legislation, this means strictly adhering to a cohesive set of styles, where the styles are based on on a common pan-jurisdiction style catalog of some kind, and where there is even the most basic QA mechanism in place to make sure that the styles are being adhered to. The trade jargon for this is rigorous markup.

Peter Sefton has had a great series of blog entries in which he has managed to blast almost everyone in the office document space:

So, another week, another OASIS ODF TC meeting. What are the numbers this week? How have my issues relating to a concentration of power (the potential to pass or to block issues) by members affiliated with particular sectors fared? Even worse than before:
1) Office suite developers: 91% 2) Commercial voters: 91% 3) Voters associated with a single code base: 63%

Peter Sefton has had a great series of blog entries in which he has managed to blast almost everyone in the office document space:

Read the rather startling comments to the article The long-running Sun-Apache dispute

So, another week, another OASIS ODF TC meeting. What are the numbers this week? How have my issues relating to a concentration of power (the potential to pass or to block issues) by members affiliated with particular sectors fared? Even worse than before:
1) Office suite developers: 91% 2) Commercial voters: 91% 3) Voters associated with a single code base: 63%

Readers who have potential features they would like to see in OpenOffice and Office (or other ODF and OOXML applications) should submit requests now to the appropriate standards committees. If we don’t speak up about your requirements, they probably won’t be met. Mind reading is not the optimal mechanism for standards development! In particular, this may apply to you if you have put in a request for an enhancement (or perhaps bug fix) to a product which actually relates to a provision in a standard.

Read the rather startling comments to the article The long-running Sun-Apache dispute

Here is a Schematron schema for the kinds of constraints I am suggesting would be appropriate for handling extensions with MCE.