W3C

I18N ITS WG

31 Aug 2005

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Attendees

Present
Christian, Diane, Felix, Goutam, Tim, Yves
Regrets
Karunesh, Masaki, Andrzej
Chair
Yves
Scribe
Felix

Contents


ACTION ITEMS

<scribe> ACTION: RI to contact somebody from W3C about feedback (PENDING) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<scribe> ACTION: FS to contact person from ATOM (PENDING) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

ACTION (DONE): Yves to adapt changes from wd and wiki

<YvesS> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-its/2005JulSep/0040.html

ACTION (DONE): Felix to post a reading list

CL: about the reading list
... should we all choose something from the reading list

Felix: yes

Yves: let's talk about that now

<YvesS> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-its/2005JulSep/0040.html

Yves: about namespaces
... what should we concentrate on?

CL: many things seems to be relevant
... if we want to come up with a general approach for at least 3 schema languages

Yves: let's concentrate on xml schema
... then relax ng, then schematron

xml schema on namespaces: On Namespaces: 67-99

yves: other items are sometimes difficult, sometimes easy
... other comments on the reading list?

cl: about xlink
... in the xlink spec we see other approaches on combining new namespaces

yves: that's a good idea, let's add it to the reading list

fs: we can concentrate on the examples in the xlink spec

Yves: xml schema, namespaces, relax ng and schematron (basics), xlink as an example for element combination as the reading list

<scribe> ACTION: (DONE) YS to reestablish def for "data category" in the definitions [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action03]

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0504ReqKeyDefinitions

Yves: could we explain it more in detail?

CL: There is one in the TC 37
... I will research on that again

<scribe> ACTION: CL and others to make research on data categories definitions [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action04]

ACTION (Pending): RI to post an email to the Activity about the definition of "internationalization" and "localization"[recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action04x]

<scribe> ACTION: For the f2f, see action item list at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-its/2005JulSep/0042.html [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action05]

F2f

Yves: all, take care of the hotel reservation
... and prepare the xml schema stuffs
List of action items for the f2f:
- All to think about becoming an co-editor of the recomendation which describes the implementation of ITS.
- All to book hotel for the face-to-face meeting (Several of us should be at the Hotel Aldo). - All to prepare possible questions related to XSD.
- All to read up on namespaces.
- FS to prepare Ruby information.
- YS to prepare "indicator of translatability"

Requirements

http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0504ReqKeyDefinitions

Yves: just tackled that

http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqLangLocale

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqLangLocale

Yves: I have taken this other from Masaki at the moment

<chriLi> Section 2.12 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/

<scribe> ACTION: FS: add a reference to RFC 3066 bis to http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqLangLocale [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action06]

CL: could we add a reference to the xml spec?

FS: the definition of the values is in the rfc

<GoutamSaha> dear colleagues, may I request you all to peruse the generalized three schemas scheme that I submitted to ITS-WG toward meaningful translation

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0505LimitImpact

<scribe> ACTION: CL to add a paragraph on the role of xml:lang to the summary section, FS to add a paragraph somewhere to the role of values of xml:lang [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action07]

Yves: limited impact is ready for working draft

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0505ReqAttrAndTrans

Yves: very few comments on this
... it is an important requirement
... everybody agree?

Tim: I agree

<GoutamSaha> yes, I agree

Yves: I will move it to working draft

CL: one comment
... what is the requirement?
... is it a recommendation?
... it would have to go into the guidelines
... it is not related to technologies, as it is worded now
... as for technologies, we should say: the its mechanism should provide the same mechanism for attributes as for elements, or other mechanisms

<scribe> ACTION: Yves to make rewording of http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0505ReqAttrAndTrans, with respect to CL comments [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action08]

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqTermIdentification

<scribe> ACTION: Yves about http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqTermIdentification to modify the examples of the guidelines [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action09]

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqCDATA

yves: that needs some work

Tim: will change it to the current format

yves: two issues
... if you translate markup, you cannot distinguish the text from it
... the other problem is how to put the markup into the text
... so could we reword it: we need to distingush between text and code. CDATA is just an example of that.

<GoutamSaha> that's right

<scribe> ACTION: Tim to change the CDATA req [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action10]

CL: are there guidelines what should be done if somebody has to use CDATA sections?

Tim: it would be o.k.
... if there is a CDATA section, you need to make clear somehow that the content is, e.g. Java code
... so far it is left to the translator

Yves: looking from experience, if you have a cdata section, you can trick parsers to get rid of the cdata section

sometimes you know that all the stuff is xml stuff

<chriLi> General thought: We may work along the lines of both infoset and DOM (http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_nodetype.asp)

<scribe> ACTION: Felix to investigate what is not in the infoset [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action11]

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0506ReqMultilingualDoc

<chriLi> The req should rather talk about "parallel content"

<scribe> ACTION: Yves to reword http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0506ReqMultilingualDoc [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action12]

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0505ReqBidi

Yves: not much to say about the requirement itself
... the solution will be more challenging
... put that as WD

<scribe> ACTION: Yves to put http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0505ReqBidi to wd [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action13]

Other business

CL: goutam sent a mail: "we should consider to a generalized scheme"

"A Syntactic & Semantic Approach to I18N and L10N"

<scribe> ACTION: Yves to write a mail to Goutam write a mail to everybody about his purposes on the f2f topic [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action14]

CL: Felix on additional use case for mapping specification
... would be good

<scribe> ACTION: Felix to add an additional paragraph to the mapping req [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action15]

<chriLi> Apologies in advance for the next two meetings

<chriLi> vacation :-)

<scribe> ACTION: Yves to send a list of topics at the f2f to FS [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action16]

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: CL and others to make research on data categories definitions [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action04]
ACTION (Pending): RI to post an email to the Activity about the definition of "internationalization" and "localization"[recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action04x]
[NEW] ACTION: CL to add a paragraph on the role of xml:lang to the summary section, FS to add a paragraph somewhere to the role of values of xml:lang [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action07]
[NEW] ACTION: Felix to add an additional paragraph to the mapping req [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action15]
[NEW] ACTION: Felix to investigate what is not in the infoset [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action11]
[NEW] ACTION: For the f2f, see action item list at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-its/2005JulSep/0042.html [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action05]
[NEW] ACTION: FS: add a reference to RFC 3066 bis to http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqLangLocale [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action06]
[NEW] ACTION: Tim to change the CDATA req [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action10]
[NEW] ACTION: Yves about http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqTermIdentification to modify the examples of the guidelines [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action09]
[NEW] ACTION: Yves to make rewording of http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0505ReqAttrAndTrans, with respect to CL comments [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action08]
[NEW] ACTION: Yves to put http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0505ReqBidi to wd [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action13]
[NEW] ACTION: Yves to reword http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0506ReqMultilingualDoc [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action12]
[NEW] ACTION: Yves to send a list to FS about the f2f [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action16]
[NEW] ACTION: Yves to write a mail to Goutam write a mail to everybody about his purposes on the f2f topic [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action14]
 
[PENDING] ACTION: FS to contact person from ATOM [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action02]
[PENDING] ACTION: RI to contact somebody from W3C about feedback [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
 
[DONE] ACTION: YS to reestablish def for "data category" in the definitions [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/08/31-i18n-minutes.html#action03]
 
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