[xliff] Minutes of the XLIFF TC October 15th, 2002

Minutes of the XLIFF 
TC October 15th, 
2002

1/ Attendance: Jonathan Clark, Tony Jewtushenko, Mark 
Levins, Christian Lieske, Mat Lovatt, Enda McDonnell, 
John Reid, Peter Reynolds, Yves Savourel, David 
Pooley,  Bryan Schnabal.
Apologies: John 
Corrigan
Observer: Shigemichi 
Yazawa

2/ Tony welcomed 
Shigemichi to the meeting. Shigemichi works for GlobalSight which provides a 
Globalisation Management System.

3/ Minutes of 
the last meeting were read and agreed. John proposed them as a correct record 
and Matt seconded this.

4/ Work in progress
Embedded XLIFF - Localisation 
directives
Enda had tried to using localisation directives and described it 
as cumbersome with too many directives. He also pointed out some of the other 
problems such as how do you specify an attribute is to be 
localised.
Christian pointed out the value of localisation directives giving 
the example of Java properties file. This start a discussion about using this 
with non XML files.
There was a discussion about whether or not it was 
possible to include this with version 1.1.
It was suggested that a start an 
email thread about using localisation 
directives.

We agreed that we would have a special meeting next 
Tuesday devoted to Embedded XLIFF. It was agreed that the first item on the 
agenda was whether localisation directives should be de-coupled from the 1.1 
discussion. We will also decided that Embedded XLIFF not including localisation 
directives will be discussed prior to the localisation directives.
It was 
also agreed that we move to weekly meetings until we had completed 1.1. These 
extra meetings will be classed as a working 
group.

Formal Extensibility
John will send the group a 
spread-sheet with a list of restype values. He will try and expand this to other 
data types. Matt will try and group these.

Working draft
Yves has sent a working draft to the 
TC which should be reviewed next Tuesday.

Tool element
John outlined the current 
suggestions with this element. 
All names of attributes used by the tool 
element will be changed so that they are pre-fixed by"tool-" as in 
"tool-name".
The existing tool attributes will be deprecated.
Extension 
points will be allowed within the tool element.
tool-id will be used as the 
reference to tool.
These were all agreed by the 
TC.

5/ Lisa Conference
It was suggested that Yves and 
Christian's presentation should be put on our Web 
site.

6/ LRC Conference
Tony and Peter will address 
this.

6/ Next Meeting
Tuesday October 22nd. usual 
time.

 

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