[tei-council] ITS at W3C (was:Re: roma, documentation, i18n)

[Christian Wittern]

Council members,

As it happens, I had a long conversation with Felix Sasaki yesterday,
who joined the W3C host in Japan this April and works there on i18n
issues.  He mentioned work going on at the W3C at the ITS
(Internationalization Tag Set,
cf. http://www.w3.org/International/its/) group, which seems to have
some overlap with our problem here. The mission statement for the
group is as follows:
<quote>
Mission: Develop a set of elements and attributes that can be used
with new DTDs/Schemas to support the internationalization and
localization of documents; and provide best practice techniques for
developers of DTDs/Schemas that show how to enable
internationalization of their documents.
</quote>

They are not ready and it might be overkill, but it seems to me that
we should monitor this.

He asked also if somebody from the TEI would be interested to join
this group; we also discussed if the TEI could/should consider to
enter into some formal relation with the W3C.  I would be interested
in opinions from the Council members on the desirability of such a
development.

Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> Christian Wittern wrote:
>
>>What would be the advantage of pulling this into the main P5 source?
>>I see only added maintainance cost with no real benefit.  You could as
>>easily pull them out and merge them into the tree on runtime.
>>  
>>
> perhaps its matter of semantics; if the main ODD processing
> software expects to find the various language-specific <desc>s
> in site in the main document, then it does not much matter whether
> the merge is at runtime or at source. I just want to avoid a "normal"
> ODD processor from having to know about the language modules.
>
>>>dont forget attributes, and vallists, by the way

>>But attributes should be covered within the elementSpec, shouldnt
>>they.
>>
> and the classSpecs.

-- 
 Christian Wittern 
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN