RE: [pls] Invitation letter for WAI/I18N/MMI people interested on Pronunciation Lexicon spec

 

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Baggia Paolo
    
    we just published the first WD. Are you going to comment it too?
    
    I'll be very interested to your comments.
    See: http://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon

>From that WD.

<quote>In the Pronunciation Lexicon Specification the pronunciation alphabet is specified by the "alphabet" attribute (see Section 4.1 and Section 4.6 for details on the use of this attribute). The only valid values for the "alphabet" attribute are "ipa" (see the next paragraph) and vendor-defined strings of the form "x-organization" or "x-organization-alphabet". </quote>

then 

<quote>A processor should support a value for "alphabet" of "ipa", </quote>
Note the 'should'.

then

<quote>The production of output when other codes are given is entirely at processor discretion.</quote>


My interpretation.

W3C members and staff are spending time and money on a WD | recommendation
which is not going to standardise anything, since the only 'standard' alphabet
is optional (a *should*, not a must).


Where is the standardisation?

  Is the intention to standardise the n various alphabets in use by 
vendors? They equally are optional and presumably have rights tied to them.




Is this what W3C are doing?

Tell me where my interpretation is wrong please?

regards DaveP

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Received on Thursday, 24 February 2005 11:31:48 UTC