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Industry Standards

The localization industry uses several standard to exchange data between tools. The applications and components of the Okapi Framework try to support these formats as much as possible. Note that they at various state of development. They are:

The localization industry uses several standards to exchange data among various tools. The applications and components of the Okapi Framework support these formats to the extent possible. Note that the formats are at various states of standardization. They include:

• XLIFF - XML Localisation Interchange File Format
  Maintained by the XLIFF Technical Committee at OASIS, XLIFF provides a common markup language for extracted localizable text.
  Status (as of Jun-2007): v 1.2 Committee Recommendation, many consistent implementations exist.
  - XLIFF Specification

• TMX - Translation Memory eXchange
  Maintained by the OSCAR Committee at LISA, TMX covers the exchange of translation memory data.
  Status (as of Jun-2007): v 1.4b LISA Standard. Many implementations, some consistent.
  - TMX Specification

• SRX - Segmentation Rules eXchange
  Maintained by the OSCAR Committee at LISA, SRX addresses the exchange of segmentation rules among tools.
  Status (as of Jun-2007): v 1.0, LISA Standard, few implementations, not consistent at all. Upcoming v 2.0 resolves this.
  - SRX Specification

• ITS - Internationalization Tag Set
  A W3C namespace to provide internationalization information and support in XML documents.
  Status (as of Jun-2007): W3C Recommendation.
  - ITS Specification

• TBX - TermBase eXchange
  Maintained by the OSCAR Committee at LISA, TBX is a format to exchange terminological data. It is based on MARTIF.
  Status (as of Jun-2007): Not clear. Very few implementations.
  - TBX Specification

• GMX-V - GIM (Global Information Management) Metrics eXchange - Volume
  Maintained by the OSCAR Committee at LISA, GMX aims at storing metrics in XML documents (for example, word-counts).
  Status (as of Jun-2007): v 1.0 LISA Standard, Very few implementations.
  - GMX Specification

Okapi Formats

Several file formats are specific to Okapi's components and applications.

• Language List
  The Language List file is used to share information related to language identification across Okapi components and applications. For example: RFC-3066 codes, language names, Windows LCIDs, etc.
  - [Specification not yet available]

• Encoding List
  The Encoding List file is used to share information related to encodings across Okapi components and applications. For example: Encoding names, codepage numbers, encoding family, etc.
  - [Specification not yet available]