DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 15 May 2006

["Gershon L Joseph" <gershon@tech-tav.com>]

Best Regards,
Gershon

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DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 15 May 2006

(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)

The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday, 15 May 2006 at 08:00am PT
for 60 minutes.

1.  Roll call

Present: Don Day, Gershon Joseph, Kara Warburton, Kevin Farwell, Robert Anderson, 
    David Walters, Nancy Harrison

Regrets: JoAnn Hackos, Andrzej Zydron, Rodolfo Raya

2.  Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting.
    Moved by Gershon, seconded by Don, no objections.

3.  Old Business:

    a.  Review Nancy's revision of the indexing best practice enclosed.

4.  New Business:

    a.  Discuss the second item on handling inline elements properly (alt text, 
        footnote, draft comment, required element). Please pay particular 
        attention to defining how the authors should handle this.

        DONE.

    b.  If possible, continue with the next best practice in Nancy's list.

        Don: Index entries are for in-situ index entries; <keyword> should be 
        used for index terms that apply to the entire topic.

        "If appropriate, the index entry should contain the range of text to be indexed"
        - This refers to page ranges. The index term is defined 
            inside the index marker. Start range should be at beginning of start 
            block (i.e., parent block element); end range markup should be at end 
            of end block element.
        - Tools should implement range from start of start element containing 
            the start index marker to end of end element that contains the end 
            index marker, regardeless of the location of the start and end markers.
        ACTION (from previous meeting) JoAnn to provide example markup

        "The author should insert -- where ???"
        - Put them where it's logical in the source document.

        "When these elements are encountered, the tool should interpret the 
        location of the container element for the inline element as the parent 
        element of the element. ???"
        - We don't have anything to say here, remove this sentence.

        "Well-configured XLIFF-based tools do this automatically"
        Change to: In generaral, XLIFF-based translation tools can be 
        configured to do this automatically.

        Agenda item for next week:
        What other best practices do we need to discuss? e.g. maximize usage 
        of conref (reusable blocks)...
 
Meeting adjourned at 09:00am PT.

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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-translation/200605/msg00006.html