The W3C Internationalization Tag Set
Working Group has released the finished
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0. This document defines standardized XML markup for identifying directionality, translatability, ruby text, and other common aspects of
document localization and internationalization. For example, in this DocBook article
an its:translate attribute indicates that the author element should not be translated:
<dbk:article xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:dbk="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" its:version="1.0" version="5.0" xml:lang="en"> <dbk:info> <dbk:title>An example article</dbk:title> <dbk:author its:translate="no"> <dbk:personname> <dbk:firstname>John</dbk:firstname> <dbk:surname>Doe</dbk:surname> </dbk:personname> <dbk:affiliation> <dbk:address> <dbk:email>foo@example.com</dbk:email> </dbk:address> </dbk:affiliation> </dbk:author> </dbk:info> <dbk:para>This is a short article.</dbk:para> </dbk:article>
