The Next Millenium Document Format
summary
Claims a document format should carry semantic change commits instead of zipping final states, demonstrates an ODF DOMs prototype that turns ODF/HTML edits into operations and merges them via a Git-like commit model, shows live examples with CKEditor 5 and a JS event listener, and proposes generating machine-readable specs (schemas, change APIs, Schematron) from a semantic grammar. A standards proposal beat DeltaXML and Microsoft but the subcommittee is now hibernating for lack of implementations; extracting invoice XML from PDFs exposed a €1,300-standard-access problem.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 1:07Collaboration in document formats
- 6:00Semantic change tracking
- 12:01Applying Git concepts to documents
- 14:08Agile standardization process
- 17:59Semantic mapping and tooling
- 21:15Machine-readable specifications
- 23:23Reactive interoperability layout
- 25:09Summary and call to action
- 25:50Q&A session
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