[xliff] XLIFF TC face to face meeting November 4th 2002

XLIFF 
TC face to face meeting November 4th 2002 

 

1/ 
Attendance: 
Christian, Yves, Dave,  Mark, Enda, 
Mat, Peter, Jonathan, John Reid, Gerard, Shigemichi. 

 

Also attended: Patrick 
Gannon

 

2/ 
Patrick Gannon's Lisa presentation and Oasis and our role within 
it.

Patrick presented the survey on globalisation and use of 
technologies such as XML and Web Services. This presentation has been sent to 
the XLIFF list by Jonathan. 

A 
number of issues were raised after Patrick's presentation. He asked the question 
how Oasis can help promote XLIFF. Suggestions included making use of the Oasis 
marketing department who could distribute whitepapers etc. There was also the 
suggestions that we could perhaps work with other groups in different 
industries.

 

Jonathan to inform Carol of the status of the XLIFF DTD 
on the web site.

 

3/ Work in progress 

 

Reformat element - There was a discussion on the reformat 
element originally suggested by Mat. It was suggested that this could be done 
with the default at the body element which was usually set to 'no' and this 
could be over-written at lower levels such as group or trans-unit element. 

It 
was suggested that we all need to play with this some more and look at how it 
might work in practise. 

The 
suggestion was that it would be possible to have default at the body element 
which was over-written lower down in the hierarchy at for example the group 
element which in turn could be over-written lower in the hierarchy at an element 
such as the trans-unit element. 

It 
was suggested that until we talk about Localisation Directives we will not 
include this attribute and if anyone needs this they use their own 
namespace

 

Dave 
proposed and Mat seconded a motion that stated the reformat element would be 
removed from this version of the spec and discussed immediately after. This was 
agreed unanimously.

 

Phase in Alt-Trans

Yves 
started off the discussion by pointing out that we had no naming convention for 
phase-name. With the alt-trans element there are three very different ways these 
are used. These are for different suggestion from aTM, to deal with the 
evolution of translation during the translation process and to deal with 
rejected translation. There was no way of distinguishing these 
elements.

It 
was agreed that we look at phase-name attribute in relation to 
this.

 

 

Placeholder and inline elements - id 

John 
proposed that the id attribute of the g  
x  and the placeholder 
element be made optional. This was seconded by Dave.  This was agreed unanimously. 

It 
was also suggested that we included a note in the spec stating that if someone 
was introducing an inline element after the XLIFF had been created you should 
make sure it is a globally unique id if introducing an 
id.

 

Customisation/ Extensions of Attributes value in XLIFF

 This will be dealt with at our next 
meeting.

 

Spec Review

Everyone needs to read the spec to ensure that there are 
no issues with it.

 

4/ 
Next Meeting

Next 
meeting November 19th . The first item on the agenda will be to 
decide what is part of the version 1.1 spec and what is 
not.

  

 

 Peter Reynolds, Software Development 
Manager
Bowne 
Global Solutions, formerly 
Berlitz GlobalNET
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Ireland
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