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XLIFF TC Maps Agenda for 2009

February 2, 2009

The XLIFF TC voted to limit the work on XLIFF 1.2.1. The goal is to take XLIFF 1.2.1 as far as Committee Specification, then turn to XLIFF 2.0. The goal is for XLIFF 2.0 to be taken to OASIS Standard. By taking XLIFF 1.2.1 as far as CS, valuable progress will be made.

The discrepancies between the XLIFF 1.2 Specification and Schemas will be reconciled.
Bugs in XLIFF 1.2 will be corrected.
The Spec, Schemas, and Reference Guides will be in the up-to-date templates
The Spec, Schemas, and Reference Guides will be posted to the correct, public OASIS URLs

By not taking XLIFF 1.2.1 to full OASIS standard, we avoid the risk of creating XLIFF ballot fatigue (since we intend to pass XLIFF 2.0 in 2009, as well).

Here are the dates we've set (adjustments will be made as necessary):

February 17 - Approve XLIFF 1.2.1 Committee Draft [Spec, Schemas, and Representation Guides in the proper templates, and posted to the proper URLs]

March 2 - Begin the 60 day Public Review in March

June 2 - Approve XLIFF 1.2.1 Committee Specification

July 2 - Begin converting XLIFF 1.2.1 assets into XLIFF 2.0

XLIFF v1.2 Submitted for OASIS Standard

January 2, 2008

OASIS member organizations have until 15 January to familiarize themselves with the submission.

On 16 January, a Call For Vote will be issued to all Voting Representatives of OASIS member organizations. They will have until the last day of January, inclusive, to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should be approved as an OASIS Standard or not.

The XLIFF 1.2 Specification has received endorsements from, and is in use by the following esteemed organizations:

Lionbridge Inc.- http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200709/msg00000.html
SDL International - http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200709/msg00001.html
OSCAR, LISA - http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200709/msg00002.html
Idiom Technologies Inc.- http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200709/msg00003.html
Localisation Research Centre (LRC), University of Limerick - http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200709/msg00004.html

XLIFF 1.2 has relationships to similar work of other OASIS TCs and other standards developing organizations

XLIFF is an XML-based vocabulary (http://www.w3.org/XML/).
XLIFF is represented in the DITA Translation Subcommittee, and will be featured in a translation best practices document (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita-translation).
XLIFF has a working relationship with LISA/OSCAR standards related to Translation and Localization (http://www.lisa.org/), and is a requirement for several LISA standards like
- TMX (http://www.lisa.org/standards/tmx/), Support XLIFF inline markup in TMX 2.0 is in progress at this moment (draft posted for public review).
- GMX-V (http://www.lisa.org/standards/gmx/), XLIFF is a requirement
- xml:tm (http://www.lisa.org/standards/xmltm/), XLIFF is a requirement

XLIFF 1.2 Approved as Committee Specification

July 24, 2007

Ballot for Committee Specification status

Latest approved version is available as HTML and PDF.

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