[xliff] XLIFF Teleconference Minutes

XLIFF Teleconference Minutes - Tuesday, 28 Jan 2003

1. Attendance:

Tony Jewtushenko, Oracle Corporation, TC Chair
Yves Savourel, TC Editor
Gérard Cattin des Bois, Microsoft
Doug Domeny
Mirek Driml, Moravia-IT
Milan Karásek, Moravia-IT
Christian Lieske, SAP
Mat Lovatt, Oracle
Enda McDonnell
David Pooley, SDL
John Reid, Novell
Bryan Schnabel, Tektronix
Shigemichi Yazawa

Apologies

Peter Reynolds, Bowne Global Solutions, TC Secretary

Mark Levins, IBM/Lotus

The following have lapsed TC membership

John Corrigan, Sun Microsystems

Ian Dunlop, Novell
Reinhard Schäler, Localisation Research Centre

2/Previous Meeting Minutes - accept as is or amend: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200301/msg00020.html

Enda moved to accept, David 2nd

3/Review Open Issues in the tracking report: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200301/msg00035.html

1-- Issue 6 is the only open issue: There are 6 options previously discussed. 1-4 based on Mat's proposals, 5 Doug's proposal, 6 Yves's proposal to defer to a future release. Option 5 was discussed. Shigemichi and Gérard discussed compatibility issues for 1.0 parsers and the ramifications of the change: 1.0 only had "yes" or "no" with a default of "yes". Thus, the parser may only look for "no" values. It would not discover those of "font". Mat then suggested that the list of values for reformat be left open using the "x-" mechanism. However, the opinion that any extended attribute from another namespace wass that namespaces responsibility. Enda also pointed out that the extended value would have the form "x-namespace:attribute", which is rather cumbersome. Mat conceded the point. Tony called for a vote for the proposals (Option 5 was only for the mechanism and not of the actual values), Mat 2nd. Each member chose their preferred option in a role-call vote. The results are: option 4, 1 vote; option 5, 11 votes; 1 abstain.

2- The values for reformat was then discussed. Doug read the values proposed in his proposal (option 5). There was a discussion about adding color but it was generally felt that this could be too problematic. There was a discusson about css-style and if that didn't extend the values. It was pointed out that since this only says the css-style attribute can be reformated and does not specify what in that attribute can be reformatted, it was not an extension of reformat values. Tony called the role-call vote and the values as proposed by Doug was approved unanimously.

3- Mat introduced a new issue based on an earlier email: Since the resname attribute can have whitespace it should not be a nmtoken as it is in the schema/DTD. There was some discussion about whether this nneeded to be decided by the TC. It was decided that this was a bug of the schema/DTD and should be corrected without any action of the TC.

ACTION ITEM: Editor to modify the spec accordingly.

4/Schedule of remaining work

Release Candidate on Feb. 5
Allow two meetings discussion of spec changes.
Feb 19 target date

5/ Carried over from last week: Discussion and response to recent xliff-comment regarding resizing of RC type data within XLIFF - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff-comment/200212/msg00000.html . This query relates to Mat's "reformat" issue (issue # 6). Do we need to communicate the solution per Issue 6 with Mr. Tsepalov?

There was some discussion between Mr. Tsepalov and Yves. Since Mr. Tsepalov has not responded recently it is assumed no action neds to be taken by the TC.

6/Any New Business

1- John brought up the discussion between himself and Yves concerning the origin, tu-state, and state attributes.

ACTION ITEM: John will propose a solution for this.

2- Yves brought up the incompatibility with 1.0 of forcing an order on the elements, as was done in 1.1. John proposed that we rescind the decision and recommend in the sppec the order specified. Yves 2nd. Role-call vote was unanimous approval of the proposal.

ACTION ITEM: Editor to modify the spec accordingly.

7/Next meeting - Tues, 4 Feb 2003, 04:00PM Europe/London/Dublin / 08:00 AM PST

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Novell, Inc.

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