[xliff] minutes of the XLIFF TC held on January 7th.

Hi 
all,

 

The minutes of 
the XLIFF TC held on January 7th. are below. 
Thanks to John for completing them. I will update Tony's Open Issues document 
and forward that later (probably tomorrow 
morning).

 

Thanks,

 

Peter.

 

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

Observers: Doug, 
Milan

Apologies: 
Tony

 

2/ Minutes of 
the last meeting were approved as a correct 
record.

 

3/ 
Review all 
remaining Open Issues listed in the tracking report.

Item 2 - New elements default and defaults
John 
introduced this issue. There was little dissension but it was thought 
members ere not present might have comments. We decided to ask that members of 
the TC comment on this by next Tuesday. There would then be a vote on this topic 
at that meeting.

 

Item 4 Should be changed to 'Assigned to 
Editor'.

 

Item 5 Reformat element

Mat presented the document which he produced on the 
'reformat' issue http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200301/msg00004.html . 
He also highlighted the importance of this from Oracle's perspective. An issue 
that was raised was the reformat attribute within spec version 1.0. It was also 
asked what happens if the reformat attribute had been set at the 
<trans-unit> level and was also used at a lower level. 

It 
was decided to allow members to digest Mat's document, comment on it and discuss 
this next week.

 

Item 9 Attribute enumerated values

This discussion began with Christian mentioning some 
ideas he had shared with Yves about using browser technology to render the 
specification. This would enable a single source for the specification and 
schema.

There was some discussion on whether or not there was a 
need for more that one specification document. 

Doug proposed the following resolution 'Enumerated 
values are listed in the specification document'. This was seconded by Mark 
and passed unanimously. 

 

Item 12 - It was agreed that there would not be changes 
to the schema without changes to the spec.

 

Issue 10 - It was agreed to accept Mark's proposal on 
whitespaces. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200301/msg00001.html

 

Issue 11 

 - John & Enda addressed the difficulties of processing text with 
variable formatting such as extensions or other namespaces or XHTML or any other 
of a number of standard formats. John pointed out normalizing markup 
is typical processing for localization tools.

 - Doug and Brian were the main requestors of the proposal. They both 
felt that this issue could be tabled until a future release of XLIFF.

 - Mark felt that we should continue this discussion via the mailing 
list to the next meeting and decide whether to table it at that time. He would 
like more input from those that have TMX and matching experience. This was the 
consensus of the group. This item is still open until next meeting.

 

Issue 13 

 - John presented his proposal briefly.

 - Mark proposed that it be accepted.

 - Enda seconded that.

 - Unanimously Passed, 0 dissents, 0 abstentions

 

4/Schedule of remaining work 

No revision to the current schedule. We are still trying to stay on 
track.

 

 

5/Discussion and response to recent xliff-comment regarding resizing of RC 
type data within XLIFF - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff-comment/200212/msg00000.html .  
This query relates to Mat's "reformat" issue (issue # 6)

Mark pointed out that this is related to the reformat discussion. It should 
be reviewed by all before next meeting and discussed in context of the reformat 
discussion at that time.

 - This was agreed without dissent.

 

6/Any New Business

None

 

7/Next meeting - Tues,  14 Jan 2003, 04:00PM 
Europe/London/Dublin  / 08:00 AM PST

 

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