Re: [xliff] Event "XLIFF TC Call" - Summary

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Helena S Chapman <>
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2011-10-19T05:16:01+00:00
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Re: [xliff] Event "XLIFF TC Call" - Summary
Sorry I missed this meeting since I am
at Unicode conference this week. I don't understand the part about "bidi
info" re paragraph direction in XLIFF context? Why is the directional
attributes a concern of XLIFF? I can understand why one needs <bdi>
in HTML/CSS env for rendering purposes but I don't get why this is needed
in XLIFF?

Best regards, 

Helena Shih Chapman

Globalization Technologies and Architecture

+1-720-396-6323 or T/L 938-6323

Waltham, Massachusetts

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 Yves Savourel <>

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 10/18/2011 12:36 PM

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   [xliff] Event
"XLIFF TC Call" - Summary

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XLIFF TC Teleconference - Summary

=== 1/ Roll call

Present: Rodolfo, Yves, Lucía, Fredrik, Joachim, David-F, Tom, Christian

Regrets: Bryan, Helena, Andrew, Peter, Arle

 

=== 2/ Approve Tuesday, 04 October 2011 meeting minutes:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201110/msg00009.html

 

=== 3/ Sub Committee Reports

--- 1.  Inline text (Yves)

Summary is here:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff-inline/201110/msg00013.html

- Good discussion on <mrk> element.

Need test implementation now.

- Some discussion about bidi: most present use Unicode chars, not markup.

Possible need for bidi info at text unit level: e.g. paragraph direction

- Some discussion about removing or not <pc>.

--- 2. XLIFF Promotion and Liaison SC Charter 

David-F: we had a report on Linport and IN!

Report from Lucía on State of art research (xliff support in tools).

Lucia: Link available for the questionnaire. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GLBYGTX
(draft only: not to be completed)

ULI: proposal for a segmentation character.

Got negative feedback on Unicode mailing and W3C i18n XML.

Seem the idea of having a segmentation marker is dropped.

Instead look at existing character with additional character.

Important for segmentation in XLIFF.

David will post the link to Arle proposal.

Christian: Does notion of sentence exists for all languages?

Rodolfo: There are characters for paragraph, section, etc. but not sentence
(e.g. Thai)

Joachim: Thai has notion of it, but no punctuation for is.

David-F: not sure there are language without notion of sentence.

=== 4/ Charter Draft (David F.)

Moved to P & L SC by vote of TC

David-F: did it passed? (only half of members voted)

Rodolfo: yes, got the OASIS email.

Discussion is for the SC.

 

=== 5/ XLIFF 2.0 (http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xliff/XLIFF2.0/FeatureTracking)

--- 1.  XLIFF 2.0 Technical work

(if applicable, let's move these new items into wiki - either 5.1 or 5.2)

a. Code and content comparison (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201110/msg00036.html)

Good feedback so far.

Fredrik: different level of comp probably needed.

(namespace e.g.)

b. Representing starting/ending/stand-alone parts (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201110/msg00044.html)

Rodolfo: original data in attribute break semantic of an XML attribute.

But otherwise it should work

Fredrik: not the only problem with <pc>-<ec><sc>

Rodolfo: need both

Fredrik: we could do all with <sc>/<ec> + <ph>

Can't go across segment with <pc>

<pc> is for <g> in old 1.2

<pc> complicates nested mark-up.

Christian: main concern too

Rodolfo: yes, sub-segmenting is quite complicated

c. Segmentation feature (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201110/msg00055.html)

Maybe at the file-level.

But then don't work for half-segmented files

Processing expectation then when there are more than one segment.

Yves: Concepts looked fine

Fredrik: may want to be able to remove ignorables (e.g. for asian)

May have to be re-ordered.

-> re-visit the order attribute for <ignorable>

Maybe ignorable with empty source? To allow new target one

-> need to test

--- 2.  XLIFF 2.0 Technical issues

Items identified documented under feature tracker page that might

need to be moved to issue tracker or charter?

(example: core vs. module)

--- 3.  Conformance criteria

 

Any volunteer to start drafting the conf section?

David-F: should be based on Proc-req, based on use cases, based on business
processes

It's complex.

This bring back the charter.

Business processes should show where xliff applies (extraction, etc.)

To have proc-req

Rodolfo: maybe work on a specific section of charter.

David-F: yes. 

Rodolfo: conf issue with validation too.

David-F: bus proc allow to define state before and after

=== 6/ Current XLIFF business

Note: David F. will parse this list and propose which items should move
to P & L SC

David-F: can't move things without ballot.

Some are moved already.

Can delete those item from the TC agenda.

--- 1. Editing/Translating XLIFF - State-of-affairs of Tool Support (Christian)

(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201108/msg00010.html)

Moved to SC.

Lucia working on this.

--- 2. XLIFF Symposium 1 Debrief: "Voice of our customer" (Christian)

(add XLIFF Symposium 2?)

a. XLIFF Symposium 2 presentations (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201110/msg00020.html)

DF: was moved to SC.

b. Notes from the symposium (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201110/msg00027.html)

- note: Bryan will draft a reply regarding TC member participation vs.
the fact that we care and listen to these valuable inputs

Bryan not present

--- 3. XLIFF Spec in XLIFF (Lucia)

Lucia: News for this.

Will talk with Rodolfo on preparing the translation.

DF: was moved to SC too.

--- 4. Using remaining Multilingual Web Events (e.g. in Limerick) as

an opportunity to talk about the current state and the possible

future of XLIFF (Christian)

David-F: moved to SC too.

--- 5. XLIFF:Doc representation guide (Yves)

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201109/msg00046.html

David-F: Interoperability Now! Is in the SC too.

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below this line - move items to XLIFF issue tracker (5.2)?

 

  5. XLIFF and TM, Glossary, Segmentation Rules (Christian)

       (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201105/msg00043.html)

       - - Need a full discussion on this topic (Peter)

          (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201105/msg00047.html)

  6. Gathering common extension points from

     existing XLIFF Tools as a guide for 2.0 features (Bryan,
Thomas)

     (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201101/msg00007.html)

     - Lucia has taken over Micah's matrix

     - David F is investigating funding for XLIFF tools page

  7. Using other standards vs. adding XLIFF modules (Arle, David W.,
Yves, Helena, . . .)

     (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201107/msg00023.html)

     (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201108/msg00001.html)

Lucia's matrix is part of the "State of the art" work

 

=== 7/ New Business

David-F: Oracle is coming back.

Palex, Logus, Kilgray, TAUS, Welocalize also in their way.

Rodolfo: Pangeanic too.

Lucia: That is the cngl newsletter, in pages 8 and 9 they talked about
cngl researchers in the xliff symposium

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