Re: Comments on SVG Tiny 1.2 (ISSUE-2165)

Hi, Felix-

Thanks for your comment.  As requested, we've added a section discussing
ITS markup in SVG [1], and will work with you on a schema for it.

Please let us know if this satisfies your comment.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/publish/i18n.html#SVGi18nl10nmarkup

Regards-
-Doug

Felix Sasaki wrote (on 10/10/08 5:45 PM):
> Hello Doug, all,
> 
> this is a very late follow up on the ITS Working Group comment on SVG
> Tiny 1.2 . I have worked on my action item to provide a section
> describing the usages of ITS 1.0 in SVG Tiny 1.2. See the attached PDF.
> Please let me know if you agree with this draft or need modifications.
> After we have reached consensus on the text I will make a proposal for a
> modified schema (it shouldn't be to many changes).
> 
> Note that this is currently no official comment by the ITS Interest
> Group, but a personal comment / follow up which I am making to meet your
> last call deadline.
> 
> Regards, Felix.
> 
> 
> Felix Sasaki さんは書きました:
>>
>> Hi Doug, all,
>>
>> thank you very much for this positive feedback. I will create a draft
>> of a subsection of
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/i18n.html
>> and a proposal for the modification of the SVG Tiny schema.
>> Do you edit SVG Tiny in (X)HTML or do you have an XML source? Feel
>> free to answer this question offline.
>>
>> Felix
>>
>> Doug Schepers wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, Felix-
>>>
>>> The SVG WG is happy to work with you on this.  We apologize for the
>>> delay in getting back to you, but we wanted to sufficiently review
>>> the spec.
>>>
>>> We believe that ITS should be available for all 'text content'
>>> elements [1], which in SVG 1.2 Tiny are 'text', 'tspan' and
>>> 'textArea'; for SVG Full, this will include 'textPath' (and possibly
>>> others TBD).  We also agree that it's appropriate for 'title',
>>> 'desc', and sometimes 'metadata'.   An interesting question is
>>> whether it is needed for 'script' elements; in many cases, there are
>>> strings in script that should be translated, but the great majority
>>> of script should not.
>>>
>>> We will provide you with more feedback once you finish the first draft.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20051207/intro.html#TermTextContentElement
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards-
>>> -Doug Schepers
>>> W3C Team Contact, SVG, CDF, and WebAPI
>>>
>>>
>>> Felix Sasaki wrote (on 2/26/08 6:20 PM):
>>>>
>>>> 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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