Hi all,
other than in the meeting there was no follow up discussion on the Charter clarification.
In the new version I reformulated the statement about reference guides with may, as per Rodolfo's request in the meeting.
Other issues I was not able to fix:
Rodolfo was not happy with saying that a "Conformance test suit" is our deliverable (for 2.0). It seems clear that we need more than schema.
@Rodolfo, all, what can we call this deliverable without trying to resolve technical details? My personal opinion is that "Conformance test suite" is neutral enough, still according to Rodolfo it has unwanted implications and "cannot work"
Also did not locate garbled language and/or inconsistentncy in UK / US spellings that Fredrik mentioned..
Feel free to propose improvements.
Cheers
dF
[charter proposal clarification text copy-pasted]
OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format TC
The
original Call For Participation for this TC may be found at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200112/msg00000.html
The
Charter for this TC was modified on xx September 2012; this change was
announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/xxxxxxxxxxx.html
The
Charter for this TC was modified on 27 June 2006; this change was announced
at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200607/msg00001.html
The
charter for this TC was modified on 5 December 2005; this change was
announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200512/msg00002.html
The
charter for this TC was previously modified on 24 July 2002; this change
was announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200207/msg00005.html
The
charter for this TC is as follows.
Name
OASIS
XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC
Statement of Purpose
The
purpose of the OASIS XLIFF TC is to define, through extensible XML
vocabularies, and promote the adoption of, a specification for the
interchange of localisable software and document based objects and related
metadata. To date, the committee has published three specifications - XLIFF
1.0, XLIFF 1.1, and XLIFF 1.2 - that define how to mark up and capture
localisable data that will interoperate with different processes or phases
without loss of information. Currently the TC works on XLIFF 2.0
specification, i.e. the major new version. The specifications are
tool-neutral, support the entire localization process, and support common
software and document data formats and mark-up languages. The
specifications provide an extensibility mechanism to allow the development
of tools compatible with an implementer's data formats and workflow
requirements. The extensibility mechanism provides controlled inclusion of
information not defined in the specification.
XLIFF
defines a standard but extensible vocabulary that captures relevant
metadata for any point in the lifecycle which can be exchanged between a
variety of commercial and open-source tools. The XLIFF standard has been
successfully fulfilling its purpose set by previous versions of this
charter. However, the standard has to move forward as the industry moves
forward. Therefore the XLIFF TC remains committed to producing major and
minor new versions and maintaining them as per developing industry needs.
The
first phase, completed 31 October 2003, created a 1.1 version committee
specification that concentrated on software UI resource file localisable
data requirements. The next phase consisted of promoting the adoption of
XLIFF throughout the industry through additional collateral and
specifications, continuing to advance the committee specification towards
an official OASIS standard, and revising the XLIFF spec to 1.2 version to
support document based content segmentation and alignment requirements. To
encourage adoption of XLIFF, the TC had defined and published
implementation guides for some of the most commonly used resource formats. The
TC may redevelop non-normative reference guides for the major 2.0 version
and for currently prominent content formats and standards, such as OASIS DITA
and W3C MTHML5.
XLIFF TC
operates under the RF on RAND Mode of the OASIS IPR Policy, according to sections 4, 10.2.1 and 10.2.2: http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr
List of Deliverables
The
current OASIS XLIFF standard version is XLIFF 1.2 and is located here: http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/xliff-core.html
·
The
Technical Committee is currently working on the version 2.0 of the
standard.
·
The
normative deliverables for the 2.0 version will be:
·
XLIFF
2.0 Specification (HTML and pdf)
·
XLIFF
2.0 Core XML schema and schemas for modules included in the specification.
·
Conformance
test suite.
XLIFF TC plans to continuously work on minor
versions numbered 2.x, eventually 2.x.y. Minor versions numbered 2.x will
be produced by adding modules. Minor versions numbered 2.x.y will be
produced by correcting minor issues.
Should significant changes to the core be
required as result of industry developments, creation of a new major version
will be triggered.
[end of charter proposal]
Dr. David Filip
=======================
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University of Limerick, Ireland
telephone: +353-6120-2781
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Dr. David Filip <> wrote:
Dear all,
please find attached the current version of TC Charter, the Clarification proposal and a diff of the 2.
Although the diff seems large, I tried to make only minimal necessary changes. I will explain more in the call if time allows.
Cheers
dF
The final proposed text is also pasted below:
OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format TC
The
original Call For Participation for this TC may be found at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200112/msg00000.html
The
Charter for this TC was modified on xx September 2012; this change was
announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/xxxxxxxxxxx.html
The
Charter for this TC was modified on 27 June 2006; this change was
announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200607/msg00001.html
The
charter for this TC was modified on 5 December 2005; this change was
announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200512/msg00002.html
The
charter for this TC was previously modified on 24 July 2002; this change
was announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200207/msg00005.html
The
charter for this TC is as follows.
Name
OASIS
XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC
Statement of Purpose
The
purpose of the OASIS XLIFF TC is to define, through extensible XML
vocabularies, and promote the adoption of, a specification for the
interchange of localisable software and document based objects and
related metadata. To date, the committee has published three specifications
- XLIFF 1.0, XLIFF 1.1, and XLIFF 1.2 - that define how to mark up and
capture localisable data that will interoperate with different processes
or phases without loss of information. Currently the TC works on XLIFF
2.0 specification, i.e. the major new version. The specifications are
tool-neutral, support the entire localization process, and support common
software and document data formats and mark-up languages. The specifications
provide an extensibility mechanism to allow the development of tools
compatible with an implementer's data formats and workflow requirements.
The extensibility mechanism provides controlled inclusion of information
not defined in the specification.
XLIFF
defines a standard but extensible vocabulary that captures relevant
metadata for any point in the lifecycle which can be exchanged between a
variety of commercial and open-source tools. The XLIFF standard has been
successfully fulfilling its purpose set by previous versions of this
charter. However, the standard has to move forward as the industry moves
forward. Therefore the XLIFF TC remains committed to producing major and
minor new versions and maintaining them as per developing industry needs.
The
first phase, completed 31 October 2003, created a 1.1 version committee
specification that concentrated on software UI resource file localisable
data requirements. The next phase consisted of promoting the adoption of
XLIFF throughout the industry through additional collateral and
specifications, continuing to advance the committee specification towards
an official OASIS standard, and revising the XLIFF spec to 1.2 version to
support document based content segmentation and alignment requirements.
To encourage adoption of XLIFF, the TC had defined and published
implementation guides for some of the most commonly used resource formats.
These non-normative reference guides will need to be redeveloped for the major
2.0 version and for currently prominent content formats and standards such
as OASIS DITA and W3C MTHML5.
XLIFF TC
operates under the RF on RAND Mode of the OASIS IPR Policy, according to sections 4, 10.2.1 and 10.2.2: http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr
List of Deliverables
The
current OASIS XLIFF standard version is XLIFF 1.2 and is located here: http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/xliff-core.html
·
The
Technical Committee is currently working on the version 2.0 of the
standard.
·
The
normative deliverables for the 2.0 version will be:
·
XLIFF
2.0 Specification (HTML and pdf)
·
XLIFF
2.0 Core XML schema and schemas for modules included in the specification.
·
Conformance
test suite.
XLIFF TC plans to continuously work on minor
versions numbered 2.x, eventually 2.x.y. Minor versions numbered 2.x will
be produced by adding modules. Minor versions numbered 2.x.y will be
produced by correcting minor issues.
Should significant changes to the core be
required as result of industry developments, creation of a new major
version will be triggered.
Dr. David Filip
=======================
LRC | CNGL | LT-Web | CSIS
University of Limerick, Ireland
telephone: +353-6120-2781
cellphone: +353-86-0222-158
facsimile: +353-6120-2734
mailto:
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