[xliff] Minutes of the XLIFF TC held on February 18th

The Minutes of the XLIFF TC held on February 
18th are below.

 

1/ 
Attendence:

Tony Jewtushenko, Oracle 
Corporation, TC Chair
Yves Savourel, TC Editor
Milan Kar嫳ek, 
Moravia-IT
Christian Lieske, SAP
Reinhard Schaler, 
LRC
Enda McDonnell
David Pooley, SDL
John Reid, 
Novell
Shigemichi Yazawa

Mark Levins, 
IBM/Lotus 

Bryan Schnabel, Tektronix

G廨ard Cattin des Bois, Microsoft 
Peter Reynolds, Bowne 
Global Solutions, TC Secretary

 

Apologies:

Mat Lovatt, 
Oracle

Doug Domeny
Mirek 
Driml, Moravia-IT

2/ Minutes of last 
meeting read and agree proposed by John, seconded by Yves.

 

3/ Kavi Software. 
Tony mentioned this software which is being used by Oasis to manage TC 
work.  

 

4/ 
Open issues

<bin-unit> - John had sent a proposal on the 
<bin-unit> issue which Enda commented on in a follow up mail. 

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200302/msg00030.html (John's mail)

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200302/msg00032.html (Enda's mail)

The issue of rid 
having two different purposes depending on what element it was an attribute of 
was raised. 

It was proposed that 
a new attribute, 'xid', be added 
to all inline elements which references the id in the trans-unit and 
bin-unit. Proposed by John and seconded by David

This was carried by 
11 votes for, 1 against and 1 abstention

 

Feature creep - Tony raised the issue of feature creep and how we are 
managing this. He suggested that we should make decision on the final few issues 
and try and resolve them now rather than leaving for a future 
meeting.

 

Extension namespace - Shigimichi has been doing some 
research on this issue. The motion was proposed to change the extension point 
from 'other' to 'any'. This would allow you to have XLIFF as an extension 

proposed by 
Christian and seconded by Yves

This was carried by 
5 votes for, 2 against and 3 abstentions

 

Consolidated attribute value lists - John led a discussion on this topic, 
 indicating that Option 1 is pretty much what we have in the present 
proposal,  Option 2 is the preferred method but John was unable to 
implement,  and Option 3 is what more or less what Gerard suggested in his 
proposal.  The TC agreed that Option 2 is the best solution,  and 
Bryan Schnabel agreed to research and find the appropriate XSD   If this 
solution is not found, then it was agreed to fall back to Option 
1.

Phases of Alt-Trans: (item 20) :  No formal 
proposal has been put forth.  Members of the TC will have until next 
Tuesday to submit formal proposals for discussion.  If no formal proposal 
is adopted by the next meeting,  the item will be automatically deferred 
from consideration for XLIFF 1.1.

Attribute Values List (item 21):  Tony will update the list 
with reivsions received from John Reid and for Oracle submitted values.   
The revised list will be distributed to the TC by end of the week, discussion by 
email is encouraged,  and the TC should be prepared to vote on individual 
attribute values lists (ie,  vote on restype list,  vote on datatype 
list) next week.

Schedule:  dates for everything will be 
pushed out by an additional week, e.g.,  Release Candidate 1 spec will be 
released on the 26th...

No new business was 
raised.

Meetng was adjourned due to completing the 
agenda.

Peter Reynolds, Software Development 
Manager
Bowne 
Global Solutions
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+353-1-202-1280
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