Input to BP 21 http://www.w3.org/International/its/techniques/its-techniques.html#AuthInsText

Hi all,

I had a look at "Best Practice 21: Ensure any inserted text is
context-independent".

Please find my high-level feedback below.

Cheers,
Christian
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1. To me, the explanation "What is inserted text?" should come before the
"Why do this". Maybe, we may
	even want to talk about "composite texts or documents" (see 4.
below) since that term might
	be known to more people.

2. I wonder to which specific requirement this BP pertains. Is it "
http://www.w3.org/TR/itsreq/#variables"?

3. Should we really have a separate BP about entity references (cf. BP 22).
We mention them already in this BP.

4. I wonder if we should not point to far more information from the
documents which we cite as references.
	See for example the very nice recommendations (e.g. advice against
sentence-like arrangements) in the article on "composite messages"
(http://www.w3.org/International/articles/composite-messages/).

5. Aren't we missing a BP for schema developers which corresponds to this
BP? One of the key points is the
	use of identifiers which allow for example the reordering of
variables/placeholders during translation.
	Those identifiers, however, need to be incorporated into the XML
vocabulary by a schema developer in the first place ;-)

6. In order to acknowledge the recommendation (from the article on
"composite messages")

	> Provide information to the translator, where needed, to clarify
what a substring represents
	> (eg. something like "%s near '%s' at line %d" can pose a challenge
for a translator).

   we could tell people that they can possible use the ITS data categories
"Localization Note" and "Terminology" for doing this.

Christian Lieske
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