- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:27:29 +0900
- To: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Cc: www-i18n-comments@w3.org, "member-i18n-its@w3.org" <member-i18n-its@w3.org>
Hello Paul, Thank you very much! Sometimes no news is good news ;) Regards, Felix. On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:04:53 +0900, Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote: > > 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 >> >
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