OAXAL:

Open Architecture Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture intended to make adding, upgrading, and swapping components with other computers easy. For example, the IBM PC, Amiga 500 and Apple IIe have an open architecture supp ...

for XML Authoring and Localization is an Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) standards-based initiative to encourage the development of an

open Standards An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. It is also a prerequisite to use open license, non-discrimination and extensibility. Typically, anybody can participate in the development. There is no single definitio ...

approach to

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable ...

Authoring and Localization. OAXAL is an official OASIS Reference Architecture Technical Committee. On 11 December 2009, the OASIS OAXAL TC approved the OAXAL v1.0 Reference Model as an official OASIS Committee Specification. The Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization (OAXAL) represents a comprehensive, efficient, and cost-effective model regarding the authoring and translation aspects of XML publishing. OAXAL encompasses the following key Open Standards:
XML
- Extensible Markup Language (

) is a simple, flexible text format originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing. XML also plays an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. *

Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...

Unicode
- A character encoding scheme that encompasses all character sets. * W3C ITS
W3C ITS
- An XML vocabulary that defines translatability rules for a given XML document type. * SRX
SRX
- Segmentation Rules eXchange, a LISA OSCAR standard defining text-subdivision rules for each language. Please also see the Wikipedia article for SRX. * xml:tm
xml:tm
- XML-based text memory, a LISA OSCAR standard for author memory (a history of segments and revisions) and translation memory (a history of translated segments). * GMX
GMX
- Global Information Management Metrics Exchange, a LISA OSCAR standard for word and character count and metrics (for volume, complexity, and quality) exchange. * TMX
TMX
- Translation Memory eXchange, a LISA OSCAR standard for exchanging translation memories. * Unicode TR29
Unicode TR29
- The primary Unicode standard defining word and sentence boundaries. * Open Standard XML Vocabularies, including DITA
DITA
,

Docbook DocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of documentation. As a semantic languag ...

Docbook
,

XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. While HTML, prior ...

XHTML
, SVG
SVG
,

ODF The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed XML files. It was developed wi ...

ODF
, and others that may emerge as standards. *

XLIFF XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) is an XML-based bitext format created to standardize the way localizable data are passed between and among tools during a localization process and a common format for CAT tool exchange. The XLIFF T ...

XLIFF
- XML Localization Interchange File Format, a
OASIS
standard for exchanging Localization data.

Online documentation

The full version of the OAXAL Reference Architecture is available online i
wiki
o
PDF
form.

References

OASIS OAXAL TCOfficial OAXAL Committee standard in wiki formOfficial OAXAL Committee standard in PDF form
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