OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee Agenda -- 16 July 2007

["JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

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1)  Roll Call

 

2) Accept Minutes from 16 July 2007 (need from Gershon

 

  New Translation SC wiki page (Thank you, Bob Doyle)

  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/TranslationSubcommittee

 

 

3)  Review open action items

 

    3.1 ACTION: Gershon to investigate whether he can use a client's samples.
        Gershon will assemble all the examples into the template for the TC; need to add the examples to the Multilanguage Best Practice.

 

        CONTINUED. Awaiting legal OK; Gershon is selecting items for use in the Best Practice.

 

    3.2 ACTION: Gershon and Don will present the approved best practices on
        indexing, conrefs, Translation Memory, and multilanguage as committee drafts for approval by    

        the    DITA Technical Committee.

 

        CONTINUED. Gershon to complete marking up in DITA XML and complete OASIS
        customization and deliver to TC for review; now working with Mary McRae to get these

            Documents in shape for a vote.

 

        Don asked Gershon to make new Wiki page with links to the latest drafts
        of the Translation SC BPs for review.

 

            COMPLETED

 

    3.5 ACTION: Rodolfo will continue to work on the Best Practice for XLIFF

        CONTINUED.

 

 

    3.6 ACTION: JoAnn will try writing the sort order addition to the indexing
        Best Practice for review.

        CONTINUED.

 

    3.7 ACTION: JoAnn will contact Richard Ischida to get clarification on the need for a pronunciation    

            element

            or attribute for the acronym proposal.

 

        IN PROGRESS -- note sent to Richard. JoAnn raised the issue at the OASIS Symposium

        with  the Accessibility working group headed by Peter Brunet from IBM. They are working on        

        Accessibility for ODF. Suggested that DITA be included in the accessibility discussions. No response as yet.

 

4)  Returning business:

 

    4.1 Vote on the final version of Andrzej and Rodolfo's  acronym proposal. See the new wiki
 
    4.2 Discussion of the 4.2 Discuss Rodolfo's  proposed additions to the Indexing best practice. 
        

 

5)  New business:

   

    5.1 New Translation WIKI page (Question: how to attach documents)

 

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/TranslationSubcommittee

 

    5.1 Comment on the W3C working draft.

 

A W3C working draft document entitled "Best Practices for XML Internationalization" was published last week.

It includes a section on DITA at

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20070628/#dita

Comment from Deborah Pickett (Moldflow)

 

Curious.  It gives some advice on how to handle Ruby, which DITA probably needs a domain for sooner or later.

There are a few errors/omissions with respect to their coverage of DITA:

- The XPath selectors are all of the form "//term" rather than "//*[contains(@class, ' topic/term ')]".  Selectors appear to be able to use all XPath 1.0 patterns, so they should Do The DITA Thing with element names and classes.

- There's no mention of incorporating the domain into DITA maps, which can have translatable text.

- It doesn't look like much attention has been given to is-a relationships and overrides (i.e., <step> is-a <li>).  But, looking at the spec for ITS, the override logic for <its:rules> isn't sophisticated enough to cope with mixing-in of DITA domain specializations anyway.  Darn. 

 

 

JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
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JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD

President

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