RE: Request for feedback on http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-its-20051122/

Several members of the XML Core WG have looked at
the ITS spec and have determined there are no issues
from our point of view. 

Paul Grosso
for the XML Core WG

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-xml-core-wg-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-xml-core-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Felix Sasaki
> Sent: Tuesday, 2005 November 29 13:45
> To: w3c-xml-schema-wg@w3.org; public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Cc: member-i18n-its@w3.org
> Subject: Request for feedback on 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-its-20051122/
> 
> 
> Dear XML Core and XML Schema Working Groups,
> 
> The i18n ITS Working Group [1] has published a first working 
> draft of the  
> "Internationalized Tag Set (ITS)" [2], which implements 
> requirements [3]  
> for the internationalization and localization of schema 
> languages and  
> markup. From the abstract of [2]:
> 
> This document defines data categories and their 
> implementation as a set of  
> elements and attributes called the "Internationalization Tag 
> Set" (ITS).  
> ITS is used with new and existing schemas to support the  
> internationalization and localization of schemas and documents.  
> Implementations of ITS are provided for three schema 
> languages: XML DTDs,  
> XML Schema and RELAX NG. In addition, implementations are 
> provided as  
> fixed modularizations of various existing vocabularies (e.g. XHTML,  
> DocBook, Open Document).
> 
> In this first working draft we have focused on the basic 
> design decisions  
> of ITS, see also [4]:
> 
> - not specifying elements and attributes directly, but 
> describing "data  
> categories" which can be realized as various elements / 
> attributes, in  
> various schema languages.
> - describing the scope [5] of the ITS information, e. g. all 
> instances of  
> an element declared in a schema vs. all child elements of a 
> given node.  
> The latter methodology is relying on specified subsets of XPath.
> - assuring limited impact of ITS on existing schemes by using mainly  
> global attribute groups for the implementation of ITS data categories.
> 
> Although this is a first working draft, the ITS working group would  
> appreciate your feedback on these basic decisions, since now 
> we have to  
> decide in which direction ITS should go. So it would be great 
> if you could  
> discuss the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) [2] in your 
> groups and  
> provide us with your comments. Please give either feedback 
> via the list  
> "www-i18n-comments@w3.org" or via Bugzilla [6].
> 
> Thank you very much in advance & best regards,
> 
> Felix Sasaki (team contact of the i18n ITS Working Group)
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/International/its
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-its-20051122/
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-itsreq-20051122/
> [4] http://www.w3.org/tr/2005/WD-its-20051122/#design-decisions
> [5] http://www.w3.org/tr/2005/WD-its-20051122/#scope
> [6] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=ITS
>

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:50:04 UTC