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Hi Tim,
We've been wrestling with XLIFF vs TMX and are of the opinion that they share more in common than not. I guess our push for XLIFF at Novell was based on the fact that your goodselves at Sun with Novell and Oracle (amongst others) steered XLIFF into joint existence. This effort gave XLIFF a real momentum that surpassed that of the other standards. At Novell we're using XLIFF as both a container for localisable content and terminology as well as some early attempts at a cross-platform native resource file format. I'd be keen to swap some experiences with you in the hope we could adopt a common approach in the open source space. Warm regards
Steve.
Stephen Holmes
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Fax: +353-1-605-8200 Cell: +353-86-833-5027 Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions http://www.novell.com >>> Tim Foster <Tim.Foster@Sun.COM> 01/09/2003 16:05:00 >>> Hi Javier & All, No need to reinvent the wheel - there's existing XML schemas that are designed for managing glossaries already which you might be able to use. There's two main standards out there : OLIF[1], which I believe was best suited for terminology exchange between machine translation applications and TBX[2] which is another standard I think originally based on OLIF. Someone more intelligent than I could tell you which is best. As regards other translation standards, we at Sun also use XLIFF, for general translation workflow processes and TMX as a means for exchanging translation memories. As I mentioned before[3], we're doing quite a bit of work on translation tools, and would be happy to help out ? (I believe Sun is already doing an amount of translation work on GNOME, but perhaps some of our translation tools could be of use also ?) cheers, tim [1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/olifConsortium/ [2] http://www.lisa.org/tbx/ [3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2003-May/msg00184.html On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:30, Fco. Javier F. Serrador wrote: > We at ES-TLDP are begining to create an open glosary. It is not mature, > but we are developing some XML schemas to allow the easy interchange of > terminology. Initially we are dealing with a text-formated database, but > in the future, we will deploy a full featured database. -- *************************************** SunNetwork 2003 Conference and Pavilion "An unparalleled event in network computing! Make the net work for you!" WHEN: September 16-18, 2003 WHERE: Moscone Center, San Francisco For more information or to register for the conference, please visit: http://www.sun.com/sunnetwork _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n |