XLIFF 2.1 support in CAT tools
Lucía Morado Vázquez, David Filip · 2018
This report gathers all the Statements of Use (SOU) that were collected during the approval process of the new version OASIS XLIFF 2.1. The SOU were collected between the 30th of August 2017 and 2nd of October 2017 to satisfy the OASIS Technical Committee (TC) process requirements for a Committee Specification to progress as an OASIS Candidate standard. At least three SOU (at least one of them by an OASIS organizational member) are required in order to submit a Candidate OASIS standard (OASIS, 2017). Five SOU were collected during the aforementioned period and approved by the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee (XLIFF TC) on the 3rd October 2017. Effectively XLIFF has gathered five SOU of which three were by OASIS members, two of them Individual and SDL as the required organizational member, so the TC Process requirement was satisfied. The TC Officers requested that TC Administration hold a Special Majority Vote to approve submitting of XLIFF Version 2.1, Committee Specification 01, published on 23 August 2017 as a candidate OASIS standard. The five tools that have implemented XLIFF 2.0 have been developed by content owners, tool makers, service providers, and researchers. Their answers give us a good overview of the early implementations of the new XLIFF version.