Re: [docstandards-interop-tech] Minutes from call 2007/07/13

Michael Priestley wrote:

> In attendance:

Hi, I was not able to attend call, but please find some my comments inline:

> - michael suggested that there is probably a need/opportunity to preserve 
> the source language's semantics in the target format, perhaps using 
> outputclass attribute in dita, or equivalent in docbook (role attribute?) 

In DocBook, there is remap attribute for such purposes:

http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ref-elements.html#common.attributes

> - michael conveyed paul prescod's hope for convergence on 
> infrastucture/syntax between standards, as well as content sharing. for 
> example, having the same attributes in all standards to identify 
> translatibility etc. would be very useful for translation vendors

W3C prepares ITS standard for this (see 
http://www.w3.org/International/its/). There is already such attribute 
its:translate="no|yes". For DocBook we already suggested to use 
its:translate instead of custom attribute to users who need such 
functionality.

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