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Issue #22 of i18nCore comments: http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0606-its/ Section 6.4.2: Please provide a mechanism to point to a term definition if it doesn't have an associated id? Eg. in a DL list, where the successive DT and DD elements contain terms and definitions without ids. Surely something like termInfoPath is needed. Example 19 shows this scenario quite clearly. Terms are identified, but not linked to the definitions given in the example. FS: You could point to term definitions with a termInfoPointer attribute: <dl> <dt>...</dt> <dd>...<dd> </dl> possibly in a different document (see my reply to your comment 50 below): <its:termRule selector="//dl" termInfoPointer="following-sibling::dd"/> For consistency, I would propose to keep the naming scheme "xxxPointer", and not "termInfoPath". Also for consistency, where should be a global or local termInfo attribute (if the ITS group decides to accept this proposal).
The proposed resolution for this is to have a termInfoPointer attribute in the <termRule> element. The termInfoPointer attribute value is an XPath expression relative to the node(s) selected by the selector attribute of the <termRule> element. That expression points to the node(s) where the data can be found. So, given the example below: ... <glist> <gitem> <label>Appaloosa</label> <def><p>Rugged saddle horse that has a white or solid-colored coat with small spots.</p></def> </gitem> </glist> ... To express that the <def> element of <gitem> is the definition of the <label> element, we could use the following rule: <its:termRule selector="//gitem/label" termInfoPointer="../def"/> or <its:termRule selector="//gitem/label" termInfoPointer="following-sibling::def"/> A test application illustrating this mechanism can be found here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-its/2006JulSep/0064.html
Resolution: working group agreed with the proposal at http://www.w3.org/2006/07/19-i18nits-minutes.html#item02 . Action: editors to make the change.
See resolution for Bug 3463
Action: Felix to make the change and to go back to i18n core
Wait: response sent. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its/2006JulSep/0315.html
Closed. Commenters satisfied see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its/2006JulSep/0362.html
Summary: The Working Group decided to accept the proposal and introduced a termInfoPointer attribute. See also the resolution for issue 3463.