[dsdl-discuss] Re: W3C ITS (Internationalization Tag Set) might be of interest forDSDL Part 8

Eric et al

Don't be misled by the name Internationalization Tag Set. This is really a
"Translation Management Markup Language" and as such is a very poor example
of such a language.

OK, like Part 8, ITS offers three ways of doing things, inline, in a
separate rules file or within a schema. But their mechanisms are assigning a
single attribute, translate="yes", to a location, not trying to rename an
element, attribute, entity, etc.

Incidentally, I intend to propose dropping the "in schema" approach in
Seoul. Is there anyone who is particularly keen to see this approach
developed? (From a marketing point of view it would be useful to drop,
especially as I want to promote the "Learn DSRL in 5 minutes" idea.)

On the other hand, Uche's excellent paper is typically thought provoking,
and suggests that DSDL has more than one way of introducing architectural
forms into schemas.

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@dyomedea.com>
To: <dsdl-discuss@dsdl.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: [dsdl-discuss] W3C ITS (Internationalization Tag Set) might be of
interest forDSDL Part 8

Another initiative which can be of interest for DSDL Part 8 is W3C ITS
(Internationalization Tag Set)
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/).

This specification could be split into two separate pieces:
      * A set of metadata (called data categories) that defines how XML
        documents should be localized.
      * A mechanism to attach this set of metadata to existing
        documents.

This second piece is rather ambitious and could be made generic.

ITS defines equivalent ways of attaching metadata to XML fragments,
whether:

      * inline (the most obvious way, just add the corresponding
        attributes in the documents).
      * through rules that can be located within or outside the
        documents. These rules can map existing markup to the ITS
        vocabulary.
      * previous versions had added the possibility to define these
        rules as schema annotations but this has been abandoned.

The goal and scope of ITS and DSDL Part 8 are different, but I think
that there are enough similarities to take a look at this specification.

Eric

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