Groups - Monthly XLIFF TC Teleconference modified

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Monthly XLIFF TC Teleconference has been modified by Mr. Tony Jewtushenko*

Date:  Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Time:  11:00am - 12:00pm ET

Event Description:
Standing monthly XLIFF TC Teleconference. 
1. Call one of the MeetingPlace phone numbers: 
From the AMER region dial: * 1-888-967-2253 * +1-650-607-2253 
From the APAC region dial: * +61 2 8817 6100 
From the EMEA region dial: * +44 118 924 9000 

2. Enter the Meeting ID (805534) followed by the # key 

3. If the organizer has not started the meeting you will be: 

a. Asked to speak your name followed by the # key 
b. Placed in the waiting room on music hold until the organizer starts the meeting. 

If the organizer has started the meeting you will be: 

a. Asked to enter the Meeting Password (030543) 
b. Asked to speak your name followed by the # key

Agenda:
Agenda: 
1/roll call (Welcome TC New Members:  Steve Harris of Idiom, and Joachim Schurig of Lionbridge)

2/Previous meeting minutes (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200605/msg00062.html)  Amend, Approve, Reject as official record:

3/ Work in Progress: 
A. XLIFF 1.2 Specification 

Committee Draft Process: 

We have now successfully completed the work for XLIFF 1.2 Committee Draft.  The inventory of approved documents is as follows: 

Approved work as part of the Monday, 22 May 2006 @ 15:00 ET Ballot (http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xliff/ballot.php?id=1017)

XLIFF 1.2 Committee Draft Specification: 
(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xliff/download.php/18200/draft-xliff-core-1.2-20060516.zip) 

Supporting normative content:
- the XLIFF 1.2 Strict XSD (Committee Draft)
(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xliff/download.php/18196/xliff-core-1.2-strict-20060512.xsd) 
- the XLIFF 1.2 Transitional XSD 
(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xliff/download.php/18197/xliff-core-1.2-transitional-20060512.xsd) 

Supporting non-normative content:
- the XLIFF HTML Representation Guide Draft 
(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xliff/download.php/18201/xliff_profile_html_1.2_committee_draft_20060516.zip) 
- the XLIFF Java Resource Bundles Representation Guide Draft 
(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xliff/download.php/18202/xliff-profile-java-draft-20060516.zip) 

Approve work as part of the Tuesday, 20 June 2006 @ 11:00 ET closing ballot: (http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xliff/ballot.php?id=1048)
Supporting non-normative content:
- the XLIFF Gettext PO Representation Guide Draft 
(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200605/msg00061.html)
*NOTE:  there was one vote against approval - we will discuss if there is any need to reopen the issue.

Next step is to formally submit the entire package to OASIS to start a public review.  All work has been approved as committee draft so no further ballots are required - unless any new issues arise in the TC Teleconference we will submit the work for formal OASIS committee spec process at the close of the teleconference.  The full OASIS policy is outlined here: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#3.1 .  The public review will run for 60 days.  If no issues arise we can vote to approve the work as a Committee Spec.  Any revisions will require additional 15 day public review periods until no further open issues remain.

Regarding affidavits: 
The OASIS TC process requires that we submit 3 affidavits from Organisational members (ie.,  not individual or associate members) in order to submit the spec to OASIS standard process. The following is an acceptable template for such affidavits: 

"I certify that  is successfully using the XLIFF 1.2 specification, as approved for submission to the OASIS membership, consistent with the requirements of the OASIS Technical Committee Process."


B. Open issues: 
a. Translation of Voice XML Issues 
UPDATE (5 Mar 2006) from Mat: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200603/msg00003.html 
Archived Historical detail: 
~ Open until resolution of namespace issue. 
- Action Item: Mat will submit a proposal on how to handle Voice XML issues. 
Initial: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200403/msg00016.html 
Update: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200403/msg00017.html 

b. Extending XLIFF with separate namespaces. 
Some thought has been put into this issue but not yet even in draft form. 
ACTION ITEM: Mat & Andzrej will work offline to advance this work. 

c. (Closed) Best practice: should extraction process create target elements? 
Topic proposed by Doug. Discussed in mailing list: 
Initial Proposal (Doug): http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200603/msg00023.html 
Comment (Bryan): http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200603/msg00025.html 
Comment (Tony): http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200603/msg00035.html 
Comment (Rodolfo): http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200603/msg00032.html 

The optional meeting took place Thursday 1 June.  The meeting notes are detailed here: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200606/msg00006.html
As a very brief summary, it was agreed that any XLIFF compliant tool should be capable of dealing with empty target elements, since it valid XLIFF. We did not feel it necessary to make any changes to the spec,  but felt that an entry in the FAQ and/or whitepaper covering the topic would be helpful.  We'll keep this item as a working agenda item until it's time to revise the FAQ / Whitepaper with this information.


d. (OPEN) XLIFF - DITA Best Practices: 
Purpose of this discussion is to brainstorm what the TC can and should do to provide guidance to those who want to localise / translate DITA content, with potential recommended best practice centered around XLIFF as intermediate container. 

Meeting was held on Thursday, 15 June -> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200606/msg00014.html

RECOMMENDATION TO XLIFF TC: 

The best practice of interchanging data between DITA and XLIFF is the same issue as how to interchange data XML and XLIFF in general... e.g., how to use XLIFF with ITS,  XML:tm, etc.  We suggest that the TC author profile documents similar to the other profiles we've developed,  ie,  HTML profile... in them we recommend which elements to use or avoid, skeleton file approach, transformation approach, other common problems and recommended solutions.  Should address XLIFF  ITS, XLIFF  XML:TM, XLIFF  DITA, maybe XLIFF  Docbook.

4/XLIFF 1.2 Certification activities: 
Ignite had their 2nd meeting last week - feedback and report from Reinhard if he is in attendance. 
Report for the next meeting. 

5/XLIFF Face to Face in November?
There's an OASIS Open Standards Day happening in Germany where I think a number of XLIFF TC members may already be planning to attend. We haven't had a TC F2F in years, and I think it would be good timing to schedule a TC Face to Face to brainstorm what our next objectives and steps should be as a TC.

Date: 8-9 November 2006 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany 
Venue: Rhein-Main-Hallen 
Hosted by: Gesellschaft fr technische Kommunikation e.V. - tekom 

6/ Reports from liaisons involved with other standards groups: 
A. W3C i18n
B. Oscar
C. Trans-WS
D. LRC 
E: OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee

7/Any Other Business


Minutes:


This event is one in a list of recurring events.
Other event dates in this series:

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET

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  key\n\nGroup: OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF)
  TC\nCreator: Mr. Tony Jewtushenko*
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