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Abstract

This document defines data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes that can be used with new and existing schemas to support the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. The implementation is provided for the three schema languages XML DTDs, XML Schema and RELAX NG respectively. In addition, implementations as fixed modularizations of various existing vocabularies (e.g. XHTML, DocBook, OpenOffice schema) are provided.

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This is a First Public Working Draft of "Implementation of Requirements for Internationalization and Localization (its-impl)".

This document defines data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes that can be used with new and existing schemas to support the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. The implementation is provided for the three schema languages XML DTDs, XML Schema and RELAX NG respectively. In addition, implementations as fixed modularizations of various existing vocabularies (e.g. XHTML, DocBook, OpenOffice schema) are provided.

This document was developed by the Internationalization ITS Working Group, part of the W3C Internationalization Activity. The Working Group expects to advance this Working Draft to Recommendation Status (see W3C document maturity levels).

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