- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:20:11 +0900
- To: www-svg@w3.org
- CC: public-i18n-its@w3.org
ACTION-54 Dear SVG Working Group, these are comments on SVG Tiny 1.2. They propose *non-normative changes* to SVG Tiny 1.2 and are is sent on behalf of the i18n ITS Working Group. 1) We would like to ask you to add ITS 1.0 local markup to the content model of the metadata, text, desc, title and tspan elements. Local ITS markup is defined within the ITS 1.0 specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/its/#att.local.with-ns.attributes the "Best Practices for XML Internationalization" document contains many examples of the usage of this markup. http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-i18n-bp/ 2) We would like you to provide the following ITS global rules file for SVG Tiny 1.2: <its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" version="1.0" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <its:translateRule selector="//svg:svg" translate="no"/> <its:translateRule selector="//svg:metadata | //svg:text | //svg:desc | //svg:title | //svg:tspan" translate="yes"/> </its:rules> Global ITS markup (the its:rules element) is defined within the ITS 1.0 specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/its/#rules The its:translateRule element is defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/its/#translateRule The its:translateRule elements above mean that the default for all elements from the SVG namespace is that they are not translatable (first its:translateRule), with the exception of 5 elements (second its:translateRule). 3) We propose to add a non-normative section to SVG Tiny 1.2 explaining 1). 2), e.g. as part of the appendix http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-SVGMobile12-20060810/i18n.html We will create an initial version of this section if you agree with the comments in general. The rationale for these comments is that we think the standardized markup for internationalization and localization purposes provided by ITS 1.0 is useful for the internationalization and localization of SVG Tiny 1.2, and users and developers of SVG Tiny applications should be made aware of these possibilities within the specification itself. Note that the ITS 1.0 markup would not influence SVG specific processing, following your definitions at http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-SVGMobile12-20060810/extend.html#ForeignNamespacesPrivateData Regards, Felix
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