XLIFF Version 2.0 Committee Specification 01 is published

OASIS Members,

We are pleased to announce the approval and publication of a new Committee Specification by the members of the OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC:

XLIFF Version 2.0

Committee Specification 01

31 March 2014

Overview: 

XLIFF is the XML Localisation Interchange File Format designed by a group of multilingual content publishers, software providers, localization service providers, localization tools providers and researchers. 

XLIFF is intended to give any multilingual content owner a single interchange file format that can be understood by any localization provider, using any conforming localization tool. 

URIs: 

The prose specification and related files are available here:

HTML (Authoritative): 

http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.0/cs01/xliff-core-v2.0-cs01.html

PDF:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.0/cs01/xliff-core-v2.0-cs01.pdf

Editable source: 

http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.0/cs01/xliff-core-v2.0-cs01.xml

XML schemas:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.0/cs01/schemas/

Distribution ZIP files

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of each prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP files here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.0/cs01/xliff-core-v2.0-cs01.zip 

Members of the OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC [1] requested a Special Majority Vote to approve this specification as a Committee Specification. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve as a Committee Specification passed [3], and the approved CS01 is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.

Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone. 

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/

[2] Public reviews: 

- 30-day public review, 29 April 2013: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201304/msg00008.html

  Public review comment resolution log: https://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.0/csprd01/xliff-v2.0-csprd01-comment-tracker.xls

- 15-day public review, 19 September 2013: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201309/msg00012.html

  Public review comment resolution log: http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.0/csprd02/xliff-core-v2.0-csprd02-comment-tracker.pdf

- 15-day public review, 10 February 2014: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201402/msg00005.html

  Public review comment resolution log: http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.0/csprd03/xliff-core-v2.0-csprd03-comment-log.pdf

[3] Approval ballot: 

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2582

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/chet 

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