Tony, Doug, all,

Referring to spec revision 20061023 (http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200610/msg00022.html):

"The only change made to the spec was to add a note indicating that external schema's would not be validated by the Transitional XSD."

Both the transitional AND strict schemas were changed to use processContents='skip'. I just noticed that this unfortunately also invalidates section 2.5.4. (Validating Documents with Extensions) of the specification:

"In order to validate an XLIFF document that contains non-XLIFF parts, you can use the schema validation mechanism: In addition to the namespace declarations, add the schemaLocation attribute of the XML Schema-instance namespace to define what schemas to use to validate the document (XLIFF and the non-XLIFF namespaces)."

Also note the reference to section 2.5.4 from section 3.1. (XML Declaration).

If the spec is being updated again as a result of this, also notice the small insignificant layout-mistake in section 3.1: "The same example as above would then look like this:<?xml version="1.0"?>" - the xml declaration should be part of the following example, and not this paragraph.

cheers, asgeir

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