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Invitation to comment on #XLIFF V2.1 – ends June 20th

We are pleased to announce that XLIFF Version 2.1 from the OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC is now available for public review and comment. This version incorporates changes in response to comments from the previous public reviews. You can find details on the changes in section C.2.1 [1].

The XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) is a specification for the interchange of localizable software and document based objects and related metadata. The purpose of XLIFF’s extensible XML vocabularies is to store localisable data and carry it from one step of the localization process to the other, while allowing interoperability between and among tools.

The documents and related files are available here:

XLIFF Version 2.1
Committee Specification Draft 04 / Public Review Draft 04
30 May 2017

HTML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd04/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd04.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd04/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd04.pdf

Editable source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd04/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd04.xml

Declarative validation artifacts:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd04/schemas/

ZIP distribution files (complete):

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

http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd04/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd04.zip

Public Review Period:

OASIS and the XLIFF TC value your feedback. We solicit feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of this technical work.

The public review starts 06 June 2017 at 00:00 UTC and ends 20 June 2017 at 11:59 UTC.

The specification was previously submitted for public review [2]. This 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. Changes are described in detail in Appendix C of the specification at http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd04/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd04.html#specChangeTracking and are also highlighted in the red-lined version of the specification at http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd04/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd04-DIFF.pdf.

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed by following the instructions at “Send A Comment” at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=xliff

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of ‘XLIFF Version 2.1’, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [3] applicable especially [4] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

Additional information about this specification and the XLIFF TC may be found on the TC’s public home page located at:

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

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

[1] Changes made in response to public reviews:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd04/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd04.html#csprd03

[2] Previous public reviews:

– 15-day public review, 18 April 2017: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201704/msg00006.html
— Comment resolution log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd03/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd03-comment-resolution-log.pdf

– 15-day public review, 10 February 2017:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/201702/msg00102.html
— Comment resolution log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd02/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd02-comment-resolution-log.pdf

– 30-day public review, 26 October 2016:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201610/msg00011.html
— Comment resolution log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/csprd01/xliff-core-v2.1-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.pdf

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#RF-on-RAND-Mode
RF on RAND Mode