- From: Dave Lewis <dave.lewis@cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 22:54:07 +0100
- To: "public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org" <public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <51A678FF.5060709@cs.tcd.ie>
Here's some suggested reworking of the text for this section of the ITS2.0 specification "The XML Localization Interchange File Format [XLIFF] <http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/drafts/its20/its20.html#xliff>is an OASIS standard that enables translatable source text and its translation to be passed between different tools within localisation and translation workflows. It has been widely implemented in translation management systems, computer supported translation tools and in utilities for extracting translatable content from source documents. The mapping between ITS and XLIFF therefore unpins several important ITS2.0 usage scenarios [MLW US IMPL] <http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/drafts/its20/its20.html#mlw-metadata-us-impl>. These usage scenarios involve: 1) the mapping of ITS meta-data in a source document into XLIFF and ITS meta-data of the translatable content in XLIFF file; 2) the addition of ITS meta-data into an XLIFF file by translation tools; and 3) the mapping of ITS meta-data in an XLIFF file into ITS meta-data in the resulting target language files. ITS 2.0 has no normative dependency onXLIFF, however a non-normative definition of how to represent ITS 2.0 data categories in XLIFF 1.2 or XLIFF 2.0 <http://www.w3.org/International/its/wiki/XLIFF_Mapping>is being defined within theInternationalization Tag Set Interest Group <http://www.w3.org/International/its/ig/>. " The current text adds: "Readers of this specification are encouraged to evaluate whether that mapping fulfills their needs and to provide comments in theITS IG mailing list (public archive) <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its-ig>." but I think we should drop this for the recommendation as it may become (quickly) out of date once the mapping is firmed up. cheers, Dave
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