ITS, the Internationalization Tag Set has been published as a W3C Recommendation.

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 is Spanish, you can now use <p its:translate="no"> to indicate the content of <p> should not be translated.

# Apr 3, 2007