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Subject: FW: [dita] W3C Draft: Best Practices for XML Internationalization
- From: "JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>
- To: <dita-translation@lists.oasis-open.org>,<mambrose@sdl.com>,<bhertz@sdl.com>,"Bryan Schnabel" <bryan.s.schnabel@tek.com>,<charles_pau@us.ibm.com>,<christian.lieske@sap.com>,<dpooley@sdl.com>,<dschell@us.ibm.com>,<esrig-ia@esrig.com>,<fsasaki@w3.org>,<rfletcher@sdl.com>,"Howard.Schwartz" <Howard.Schwartz@trados.com>,<ishida@w3.org>,<tony.jewtushenko@productinnovator.com>,<KARA@CA.IBM.COM>,<ysavourel@translate.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:13:46 -0600
A note on the XML internationalization best practice.
Please remember to review.
JoAnn
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
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"Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote on
02/07/2007 11:33:25 PM:
> 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
>
>
paul
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.
Thanks for alerting us to this, Paul. It's nice to see DITA hit the
big time.
--
Deborah
Pickett
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com
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