Internationalization Tag Set 1.0 is W3C Recommendation
Yves Savourel has announced that ITS, the Internationalization Tag Set has been published as a W3C Recommendation. W3C has posted a press release and the ITS specification is posted.
ITS is a set of attributes and elements that are designed to help the internationalization and the localization of XML material. For example, the same way you can use [p xml:lang=”es”] to specify a the content of the “p” element is in Spanish, you can now use [p its:translate=”no”] to indicate the content of the element should not be translated (where square brackets have replaced angle brackets).
You can find examples and descriptions of ITS features in the specification document, and in some of the articles and presentation slides listed on the ITS Work Group page.