- From: Eve L. Maler <eve.maler@east.sun.com>
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 09:46:01 -0400
- To: Stefan Mintert <stefan@mintert.com>
- Cc: spec-prod@w3.org
Hello Stefan, At 10:40 AM 9/8/00 +0200, Stefan Mintert wrote: >I'm working on a project with the German W3C Office in order to >translate all of the W3C Recommendations to German. Additionaly to the >translation we want the translators to add annotations to make the specs >more understandable (sorry ;-), maybe to add some specific German >information. For example: if XML supports Unicode, what does it mean for >German umlauts? Questions like that shall be answered in the non >normative annotations. This would, of course, be a *great* XLink application: Write the annotations separately, then make extended links that emanate from the specification and generate clickable text and pop-ups. Tim Bray did this in a fairly simple fashion for his Annotated XML Specification; I doubt his code has been maintained, but it might be a useful place to start if you're interested, and I think it's available (or at least a description of the process is) at XML.com. But since you're "touching" the source files anyway, it's not so bad to introduce new text directly into them. >We want to write all translations in XML according to the spec DTD (I >already translated two RECs using my own DTD). Currently I begin to use >spec DTD 2.1 (downloaded from >http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/06/xmlspec-report). > >My questions are >- is this the latest version of spec DTD? >- if not, where can I find the latest version? Yes, V2.1 is currently the latest. You can always get the latest version from http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/06/xmlspec.dtd. >- yes, i can make my own version of spec DTD that would include an >element named <non-normative-annotation> for example. but would it be >possible to include such an element in the official spec DTD? if yes, I >would like to participate in the discussion of the needs for an >extension to the spec DTD. An interesting idea. What do people think about building a "layered annotation" facility right into the DTD? Personally, as an XML Linking co-chair and XLink editor, I'd rather see an extended-link application. :-) For the moment, if you want to use the DTD without modification, you could perhaps use the <note> element with a role attribute of "non-normative-annotation", and then make your stylesheet behave differently for those notes. Thanks for the suggestion! Eve -- Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190 Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center eve.maler @ east.sun.com
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