XLIFF 2.0 Introduction seems outdated

["Dr. David Filip" <David.Filip@ul.ie>]

Hi all,

I have been making minor editorial corrections to the spec and noticed that our motivational intro seems badly out of date.

XLIFF is the XML Localisation Interchange File Format designed by a group of software providers, localization service providers, and localization tools providers. It is intended to give any software provider a single interchange file format that can be understood by any localization provider. While the primary focus is on being a lossless interchange format, usage of XLIFF as a processing format is neither encouraged nor discouraged or prohibited.

The last sentence was added recently to address concerns of implementers who use XLIFF as a processing format. Howver, the preceding two sentences could use a slight makeover.

What about this?

XLIFF is the XML Localisation Interchange File Format designed by a group of multilingual content publishers, software providers, localization service providers, localization tools providers and researchers. It is intended to give any multilingual content owner a single interchange file format that can be understood by any localization provider, using any conformant localization tool. While the primary focus is on being a lossless interchange format, usage of XLIFF as a processing format is neither encouraged nor discouraged or prohibited.

While it is an important positioning statement it does not have any material consequences for the standard.

I am open to improvement suggestions and hope that the final wording of this paragraph can be Okayed in the meeting on January 14.

Thanks and regards

dF

Dr. David Filip

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