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Subject: Re: [dita] W3C Draft: Best Practices for XML Internationalization
- From: Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com
- To: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:02:29 +1100
"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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