OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC

  • 1.  [xliff] Update

    Posted 02-05-2003 14:51
    Hi all, 1-- Updated specification, schema and test file are attached. The main modification is the fix of the definition of the type for the 'purpose' attribute. Since it was impossible to use a list to mix pre-define and user-defined values, Bryan worked on a regular expression, so 'purpose' is now defined through a pattern and it work with XSV, XMLSpy and MS XSD Validator (not a small achievement: Thanks Bryan). 2-- Last meeting we talked about removing the guidelines about using lowercase values for attributes. The first paragraph of section D.2. As it is part of the 1.0 specification we probably need to vote to make it happend. 3-- One little (but important) point about the extension points in the schema: They are currently set as '##other', which means "Any well-formed XML that is not from the target namespace of the type being defined" (thus, non XLIFF). Christian remineded me that a while back, there was a discussion about replacing this by '##any', which means "Any well-formed XML from any namespace" (thus, including XLIFF itself). The rational was that we may want give users a possiblity to use XLIFF data categories in a non-standard context. See the W3C documents for more information on namespaces at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#nsTable . Input on this would be welcome. 4-- As per yesterday discussion it seems that some of us assume the 'context-type' attribute can take several values (like 'purpose'). There is no information about this is the current specifications and the current schema doesn't allow this. If it's the case, the schema needs to be adapted and use a pattern like for 'purpose'. When reading the specifications keep in mind that if the description of the attribute does not mention the values can be used in combination it means the schema does not allow combination. Let me know where else there is a discripancy like for 'context-type'. kenavo, -yves Attachment: XLIFF-1-1-Draft-3c.zip Description: Zip compressed data