Target outputs: HTML and Crossref XML rather than full PMC JATS

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"Crossref XML" here means Crossref Metadata deposit XML. The target scenario for Crossref XML output is facilitating interoperability with DOI registrants like Rogue Scholar (@mfenner).

This proposal for BpDF edition 2 and epijats version 3 is to make HTML/PDF and Crossref XML the target outputs for Baseprint documents and not full PMC JATS.

It seems unlikely there will be a real use case for transforming all of the contents of a Baseprint XML file to a proper PMC JATS XML file. Baseprint documents are not deposited in PubMed Central.

HTML is the primary target output for the contents of a Baseprint document snapshot (and PDF is output from that HTML via print specific CSS).

Embedded inside Crossref XML are JATS elements for the abstract and title, but NOT the body of an article. Titles and abstracts only need basic HTML-equivalent JATS elements and not all the elements found in the body of an article.

An implication of this proposal is that only the title and abstract of Baseprint XML needs to be JATS-transformable (for embedding inside Crossref XML). The body might also be JATS-transformable if it uses the limited schema available to the abstract, but it's not clear for what use-case the body would be transformed to JATS.