- From: Yves Savourel <yves@opentag.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:43:01 -0600
- To: <public-i18n-its@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Andrzej Zydron - XML-INTL'" <azydron@xml-intl.com>
Hi Andzej, > I am a little confused by your response here. xml:tm is a LISA OSCAR > standard that enables the unique identification of all of the translatable > elements (including translatable attributes) of an XML document. As such > it meets the requirements of BP 18 exactly. Yes, but xml:tm's IDs are in specific formats. That is fine for xml:tm, but not a need for most XML applications. > xml:tm is also intrinsically linked to W3C ITS as it allows the mapping > of W3C ITS document rules directly onto a given XML vocabulary. It > takes into account all aspects of document rules, including within text > elements, subflows and translatable attributes and interprets these via > the xml:tm namespace onto the specific vocabulary. The point of BP-18 is to make sure to set unique and persistent IDs in the document, nothing more. This has nothing to do with ITS. There is no mention of ITS anywhere in this BP. I simply think giving an example with xml:tm would be too confusing for the reader. Cheers, -yves
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