Global Information Management Metrics Volume (GMX-V) 1.0 Specification

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Abstract

This document defines the LISA Global Information Management Metrics eXchange Volume (GMX-V) specification. The purpose of this vocabulary is to define the metrics that allow for the unambiguous sizing of a given Global Information Management task. GMX-V is one of the tripartite Global Information Management standards which encompass volume (GMX-V), complexity (GMX-C) and quality (GMX-Q).

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1. Introduction

2. Key Concepts

2.1. Text Unit

2.2. Canonical Form

2.3. Unicode (ISO 10646)

2.4. Word Boundaries

2.5. Verifiable and Non-Verifiable Metrics

2.6. Inline Element Transparency

2.7. White Space Characters

2.8. Words

2.9. Characters

2.10. Punctuation Characters

2.11. Inline Element Counts

2.12. Linking Inline Elements

2.13. Logographic Scripts

2.14. Localization specific counts

2.14.1 Qualitative Text Unit Categorization

2.14.2 Unqualified Text Units

2.14.3 Translatable Text Counts

2.15. XML Entity References

2.16. User Defined Entity References

2.17. Auto Text

2.18. Repetition Counts

2.19. Current Commercial Practice

3. Counts

3.1 Word Count Extension Mechanism

3.2. Word Count Categories

3.3. Auto Text Word Count Categories

3.4. Character Count Categories

3.5. Auto Text Character Count Categories

3.6. Inline Element Count Categories

3.7. Linking Inline Element Count Categories

3.8. Text Unit Counts

3.9. Other Count Categories

3.10. Project Specific Count Categories

3.11. Conformance

3.12. Validation

4. General Structure

4.1. Metrics Element

4.2. Project Element

4.3. Resource Element

4.4. Stage Element

4.5. Notes Element

4.6. Count Group Element

4.7. Count Element

5. Detailed Specification

5.1. GMX-V Namespace Declaration

5.2. Elements

5.2.1. Metrics Element

5.2.2. Project Element

5.2.3. Resource Element

5.2.4. Stage Element

5.2.5. Notes Element

5.2.6. Count Group Element

5.2.7. Count Elements

5.3. Attributes

5.3.1. GMX-V Attributes

Appendices

A. GMX-V Document Structure

B. GMX-V Schema

C. References

D. Glossary

1. Introduction

GMX-V addresses the issue of quantifying the workload for a given localization or translation task. This is often commonly referred to as word counts. Word counts, however, do not convey the true range of possible metrics that can be used to assess the cost of localizing a document such as the number of screen shots for a software localization project, or page counts for a document layout task. GMX-V is a more precise definition of the metrics required for billing and sizing purposes.

In defining GMX-V, care has been taken to provide a definitive and unambiguous definition that also offers the widest possible scope for achieving an adequate description of the task load for a given Global Information Management project.

Metrics fall into two categories: directly verifiable from the file contents (words and characters) and unverifiable (pages, file units, lines, etc.). Some metrics may fall into both categories, depending on the circumstances. For instance, page counts may be verifiable from the file contents under some circumstances; however, under other circumstances, only a printout for a given page format can provide the basis for a count.

GMX-V does not preclude the existence of unverifiable counts, but is concerned with defining precise rules for verifiable counts based on the file unit that is being counted.

To this end, it is proposed that GMX-V cover both word and character counts, as well as allowing for other relevant count categories that cannot be verified electronically. Character counts convey the most precise definition of a translation task, whereas word counts are the most commonly used metric in the translation industry. GMX-V encompasses both measurements, thus affording both translation suppliers and customers with a choice as to which measurement most adequately reflects the translation task in question as well as allowing for other relevant metrics.

From the implementation point of view GMX-V is designed to co-exist as a namespace within other XML documents. The main target will primarily be XLIFF and Translation Web Services WSDL compliant documents, but any XML document that allows namespace extension points could host GMX-V namespace.

GMX-V has therefore the following aims:

To provide an unambiguous specification for counting words and characters for translation related tasks.
To provide a rich set of qualifiers to help accurately define the actual translation workload for translation related tasks.
To provide an XML notation for exchanging Global Information Management metrics for any Global Information Management task whether it entails translation activity or not.

GMX-V defines a precise mechanism for word and character counts irrespective of the context within which the standard is being used. It can therefore be used for the unambiguous definition of word and character counts for any electronic document. Section 2.14 defines aspects of the GMX-V specification that are specific to localization tasks.

GMX-V makes no assumptions about the format of the input document. Although it is envisaged that GMX-V will be applied predominantly to XLIFF documents, it is not limited to XLIFF or XML based documents. Any electronic document can be counted using GMX-V as long as the text is converted into the required canonical form described in Section 2.2. Canonical Form.

2. Key Concepts

The following concepts are fundamental to the GMX-V specification:

2.1. Text Unit

A document is made of a number of text units. A text unit is either a stand alone piece of text within a document, or a subdivision of a stand alone piece of text into recognizable segments. Document metrics will be based on an accumulation of the word and character statistics of the individual text units. Any segmentation should be detailed in an SRX (Segmentation Rules eXchange format) compliant document. A separate count of text units can be maintained within the GMX-V specification (see 3.7. Text Unit Counts).

Where the metrics are based on an XLIFF 1.2 file the <source> child of a <trans-unit> element constitutes a text unit regardless of any additional segmentation information that may be available as per section '2.9 Segmentation' of the XLIFF 1.2 specification. The <source> element should always form the basis of verifiable metrics such as word and character counts in an XLIFF file. The reason for this is to insure consistency with the XLIFF file structure and is also due to the fact that even where it is used <seg-source> data is not guaranteed to be comprehensive.

2.2. Canonical Form

A precise canonical (base) form for individual text units is required to provide an accurate and unambiguous basis for conducting metrics. Native forms of the text are often encumbered with extraneous proprietary formatting codes, which make the production of unambiguous statistics difficult.

The XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) normalized XML form using Unicode encoding of the source language text shall be used as the basis for the canonical form for GMX-V. XLIFF is an OASIS standard. This is the format in which the text appears in the <source> element of an XLIFF file <trans-unit> element. For audit purposes an XLIFF file is required for GMX-V metrics. The GMX-V count is undertaken on the basis of this XLIFF document. The <source> element shall always be the basis of the verifiable word and character based counts.

Example:

   <source>An example of the canonical form of a text unit.</source>

The canonical form does not contain any embedded formatting characters, such as those that exist in an XLIFF document extracted from a RTF file. Any such characters must be removed to produce the canonical form. In addition any formatting characters representing a space must be converted to the standard SPACE character (U+0020).

Original XLIFF <source> element with embedded RTF codes:

   <source>The <bpt i="1" x="1">{\b </bpt>black<ept i="1">}</ept><bpt i="2" x="2">{\i </bpt>
   cat<ept i="2">}</ept> eats.</source>

Canonical form:

   <source>The <bpt/>black<ept/><bpt/> cat<ept/> eats.</source>

The GMX-V metrics for the above are:

    words: 4, characters: 15, inline elements: 4, punctuation characters: 1, white space characters: 3

GMX-V does not mandate that the electronic form of the document being counted is in XLIFF. Nevertheless it is much easier to conduct GMX-V counts on an XLIFF file. Independent verification of the GMX-V metrics requires that an XLIFF version of the file is available.

GMX-V assumes that the text that is presented for counting contains only the text that has been deemed as relevant for the task. For a localization task this would be only the text that is required for localization purposes.

Where the metrics are based on an XLIFF 1.2 file and segmentation information is available as per section '2.9 Segmentation' of the XLIFF 1.2 specification then the segmented data should be used rather than the unsegmented contents of the XLIFF 1.2 <source> element.

2.3. Unicode (ISO 10646)

Unicode Version 4.1.0 forms the fundamental basis for the XLIFF canonical form for character encoding and for establishing word boundaries. Apart from the ISO 10646 two Unicode Technical Reports are used for establishing the canonical form:

Unicode Standard Annex #29 - Text Boundaries (TR 29-9)

Unicode Standard Annex #15 - Unicode Normalization Forms (TR 15) - Normalized Form C

Unicode TR 29 establishes the word boundaries that allow for words and characters to be counted. TR 15 establishes the actual canonical form for Unicode characters themselves. Normalized Form C is the form mandated by W3C for XML documents and can normally be taken for granted during any conversion from non-Unicode encoding form to Unicode using industry standard programming libraries.

2.4. Word Boundaries

Word and character counts are governed by Unicode TR 29 Version 4.1.0 - Text Boundaries, Section 4 Word Boundaries, which in turn relies on the Unicode TR 29 Version 4.1.0 - Text Boundaries, Section 3 Grapheme Cluster Boundaries rules. This standard unambiguously defines words as opposed to stand alone punctuation, white space or enclosing punctuation characters. All word and character counts will be on the basis of the Unicode TR 29 Version 4.1.0 - Text Boundaries, Section 4 Word Boundaries.

A full definition of the application of Unicode TR 29 Word Boundaries to the GMX-V specification is provided in Section 2.8

2.5. Verifiable and Non-Verifiable Metrics

Not all GMX-V metrics can be strictly defined or verified. Verifiable metrics can be defied for an electronic document in XLIFF canonical form. Non-verifiable metrics require a mechanism such as manual counting to establish its accuracy.

Non-verifiable metrics are not subordinate in any way to verifiable metrics; it is only that they cannot be proven on the basis of a given electronic document.

2.6. Inline Element Transparency

For word and character counts, the code for any inline elements (either empty or having content) within the canonical XLIFF representation will be treated as being totally transparent, that is, they are be treated as not being present. Inline elements will be counted separately. This is detailed in the section 2.11 Inline Element Counts below.

Example:

   <source>In this <g id="g1">exa<x id="x1"/>mple</g> the in-line codes do not form
   part of the word or character counts but are counted separately.</source>

would be counted as:

   <source>In this example the in-line codes do not form
   part of the word or character counts but are counted separately.</source>

The GMX-V metrics for the above are:

    words: 20, characters: 91, inline elements: 3, punctuation characters: 1, white space characters: 19

In the canonical form, any inline XLIFF elements that signify a space or new line character must have the equiv-text attribute set to a single space character if the space character were otherwise not present in the canonical XLIFF form. If an inline element has spatial characteristics, then it is up to the program that is generating the XLIFF file to set the contents of the equiv-text attribute accordingly. If the inline element has content, then the space character must precede and follow the start and end tags of the element if the equiv-text attribute is used to denote spatial characteristics.

GMX-V is totally agnostic regarding how the XLIFF file is created and cannot imply anything regarding inline elements.

   <source>The HTML break element<x id="x1" ctype="x-html-br" equiv-text=" "/>represented here by the in-line "x" element was
    not preceded by a space in the original document.</source>

Sub flow text within place holder elements needs to always be preserved. Sub flow text always implies that it is preceded and followed by a white space character. If no white space is present then it must be inserted in the canonical form:

    <source>Start<bpt id="2">code<sub>Text</sub></bpt>end<ept id="2">code</ept>.</source>

Canonical form:

    <source>Start<bpt><sub> Text </sub></bpt><ept>end</ept>.</source>

The GMX-V metrics for the above are:

    words: 3, characters: 12, inline elements: 6, punctuation characters: 1, white space characters: 2

A separate "Inline Element" count is maintained for inline elements.

2.7. White Space Characters

The following list defines white space characters:

Unicode space characters (SPACE_SEPARATOR, LINE_SEPARATOR, or PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR) but not non-breaking space ('\u00A0', '\u2007', '\u202F').
'\u0009', HORIZONTAL TABULATION.
'\u000A', LINE FEED.
'\u000B', VERTICAL TABULATION.
'\u000C', FORM FEED.
'\u000D', CARRIAGE RETURN.
'\u001C', FILE SEPARATOR.
'\u001D', GROUP SEPARATOR.
'\u001E', RECORD SEPARATOR.
'\u001F', UNIT SEPARATOR.

In the XLIFF canonical form white space characters are trimmed at the start and end of a text unit. Within a text unit multiple white space characters are reduced to a single space. The only exception is where the xml:space="preserve" attribute has been set for an element. In this case no normalization of spaces will occur and all white space characters will be counted.

A separate count 'WhiteSpaceCharacterCount' will be maintained for Unicode white space. White space characters are not included in the main character count.

Example:

   <source>This sentence has a word count of 14 words and 13 white space characters.</source>

2.8. Words

Words form the basic unit for counting for the GMX-V specification. The character count is also based on identified words, with the exception of scripts that do not use space word separation. Word separation is described in this section

Words are defined according to Unicode TR 29 Version 4.1.0 - Text Boundaries, Section 4 Word Boundaries, which in turn relies on the Unicode TR 29 Version 4.1.0 - Text Boundaries, Section 3 Grapheme Cluster Boundaries rules. Unicode TR 29 Section 4 defines detailed Boundary Property Values and Boundary Rules which distinguish words from other grapheme clusters such as punctuation characters. These form an integral part of the GMX-V specification.

The following example, taken from Unicode TR 29, shows an example of the identification of grapheme boundaries:

*Example 1: Word Boundaries*
The		quick		(	"	brown	"	)		fox		can't		jump		32.3		feet	,		right	?

Followed by the extracted words:

*Example 2: Extracted Words*
The	quick	brown	fox	can't	jump	32.3	feet	right

In addition Unicode TR 29 Section 4 provides an optional rule for the apostrophe character which relates to French and Italian usage such as "l'objectif". This rule known as "Break between apostrophe and vowels (French, Italian)" must also be applied for GMX-V. Apostrophe includes U+0027 (') APOSTROPHE and U+2019 (’) RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (curly apostrophe).

Thai, Lao, Khmer, Mynmar, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts are exempt from the word rules. See Section 2.13. for details of how these scripts are treated within the GMX-V standard.

Hyphen characters will not be treated as word break characters. Hyphens include U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+2010 HYPHEN, U+058A ARMENIAN HYPHEN and U+30A0 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN, and will form part of the character count if they appear as part of a word as in 'Italian-American'.

No additional tailoring of the Unicode TR 29 Version 4.1.0 - Text Boundaries, Section 4 Word Boundaries rules is permitted in the GMX-V specification.

Example:

   <source>This sentence has a word count of 9 words.</source>
   <source>This sentence/text unit has a word count of 11 words.</source>

2.9. Characters

The character count is predicated on the word count detailed in Section 2.8 above. For Thai, Lao, Khmer, Mynmar, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other scripts that do not use spaces between words, the character counts are based on the non-punctuation grapheme boundaries. For all other scripts the character count is based on the identifiable words. Please refer to Section 2.8 above for a detailed explanation.

Characters are counted based on Unicode encoding according to Unicode TR 15 - using Unicode Normalization Form C.

2.10. Punctuation Characters

An additional separate count is maintained for punctuation characters.

The following list defines what are to be considered Unicode punctuation characters:

Basic Latin punctuation characters in the ranges of '\u0021' - '\u002F', '\u003A' - '\u0040', '\u005B' - '\u0060', '\u007B' - '\u007E':
!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
The division sign ÷ \u00F7 and multiplication sign × \u00D7
The Spanish inverted exclamation and question marks, \u00A1 (¡) and \u00BF (¿).
The Armenian full stop \u0589
The Hebrew colon \u05C3 , maqaf \u05BE and paseq \u05C0
The Arabic semicolon \u061B
General Unicode Punctuation: '\u2000'–'\u+206F'
CJK Symbols and Punctuation: '\u3000' – '\u303F'

The only exceptions are the 'hyphen' and 'apostrophe' characters if they appear within a word as in: can't, or out-of-the-box. These will be counted as normal characters and form part of the 'TotalCharacterCount' as detailed in Section 3.4. Character Count Categories

The apostrophe character count is qualified for French and Italian as per the Unicode TR 29 Version 4.1.0 - Text Boundaries, Section 3 Grapheme Cluster Boundaries rules "Break between apostrophe and vowels (French, Italian)" rule as described in section 2.8 above. In this rule the 'apostrophe' acts as a word break and is also counted as part of the character count.

Hyphens include U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+2010 HYPHEN, U+058A ARMENIAN HYPHEN and U+30A0 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN, and will form part of the character count if they appear as part of a word as in 'Italian-American'. Please refer to Section 2.8 above for a detailed explanation.

A separate character count 'PunctuationCharacterCount' will be maintained for all punctuation characters in the document. Please refer to Section 3.4. Character Count Categories for details.

2.11. Inline Element Counts

Inline elements give an indication of the complexity of the localization task. Among inline elements, a separate count will be maintained for elements that reference other elements. An additional count of inline elements will be maintained for each text unit's categorization category detailed below. Inline elements with content will be counted as two inline elements.

Example:

   <source>In this <g id="g1">example</g>
   the in-line codes do not form part of the word or character counts but constitute a
   separate inline element count of 2, because the inline element has content.</source>

   <source>In this <g id="g1">exa<x id="x1"/>mple</g>
   the in-line codes do not form part of the word or character counts but constitute a
   separate inline element count of 3, because we have one element with content and
   one without.</source>

2.12. Linking Inline Elements

An additional count of inline elements that link to another text unit will be kept. Linked elements require additional localization effort as the linked text unit needs to be referenced as part of the translation. These elements are also counted as part of the inline element count above.

Example:

   <source>In this <g id="g1" xid="t2">example</g> the in-line element references another trans-unit via the xid attribute -
   it forms part of the inline element count as well as the linking inline element count.</source>

2.13. Logographic Scripts

Scripts such as Thai, Lao, Khmer, Mynmar, Chinese, Japanese Korean and any other scripts that do not use spaces between words, are exempt from the word rules detailed in Section 2.8 above. For these languages no subdivision of grapheme boundaries into individual words will be accommodated in this version of the GMX-V specification. The Unicode TR 29 - Text Boundaries, Section 3 Grapheme Cluster Boundaries rules will still apply to distinguish text from punctuation characters for these scripts. These will be used to provide character counts for these scripts. Please refer to Section 2.8 and Section 2.9 above for a detailed explanation.

Apart from counts based on words, all other counts are relevant for these scripts.

2.14. Localization specific counts

The following count categories are specific to localization industry tasks.

2.14.1 Qualitative Text Unit Categorization

A typical translatable document will contain a variety of types of text units. Some of these will require translation and some will not, while other text units will require only proofing since they have been matched against a leveraged translation memory database. Regardless of the agreement between a translation supplier and a customer, a count for overall text units, as well as translatable and non-translatable, will be provided for both word and character counts. In the following XLIFF based examples the canonical form is that of the <source> element.

Example:

   <trans-unit id="t1" translate="yes">
       <source>This is an example of translatable text</source>
       <target>This is an example of translatable text</target>
   </trans-unit>
   <trans-unit id="t2" translate="no" state-qualifier="x-alphanumeric">
       <source>10AB1024</source>
       <target>10AB1024</target>
   </trans-unit>
   <trans-unit id="t3" translate="no" state-qualifier="x-punctuation">
       <source>-</source>
       <target>-</target>
   </trans-unit>
   <trans-unit id="t4" translate="yes">
       <source>matched sentence</source>
       <target state-qualifier="leveraged-tm">zdanie dopasowane</source>
   </trans-unit>

Additionally, prior to sending the translation project to the translation supplier, the customer may have analyzed the source document against a translation memory in order to retrieve previously-translated segments. In this instance, an additional word count of the segments that are found in the translation memory may be provided

Example:

   <trans-unit id="t1" translate="yes">
       <source>This text unit has been matched against a leveraged matched database.</source>
       <target state-qualifier="leveraged-tm">To zdanie zostalo dopasowane z bazy danych.</source>
   </trans-unit>

Certain text units, such as numeric or measurement-only text units, may be converted automatically by software into the target language.

Example:

   <trans-unit id="t1" translate="no" state-qualifier="x-numeric">
       <source>10,000.00</source>
       <target>10.000,00</target>
   </trans-unit>
   <trans-unit id="t2" translate="no" state-qualifier="x-measure">
       <source>10.50 mm</source>
       <target>10,50 mm</target>
   </trans-unit>

It is up to the translation supplier and customer to agree on the exact nature and type of non-translatable text units. Text unit categorization will not be mandated, merely offered in the standard as an option.

2.14.2 Unqualified Text Units

Unqualified text units are text units that require translation. Any text unit that is not qualified as per Section 2.14.1 and has no exact or leveraged match is deemed to be unqualified.

This classification is important as any auto text (see Section 2.17. Auto Text) or inline linking (see Section 2.11. Inline Element Counts) and non-linking (see Section 2.12. Linking Inline Elements) counts are only applied to unqualified text units.

2.14.3 Translatable Text Counts

One of the main aspects of this standard is to produce an unambiguous industry accepted figure for the total quantity of words and characters within an electronic document. For translation tasks the minimum required by the specification, is that a volume metric is produced for words and characters that includes the following:

Total Word Count

This includes all words as defined in Section 2.8.

Total Character Count

This the character count for all words as defined in Section 2.9 .

Over and above this minimum conformance for translation tasks (see 3.9. Conformance) required by the specification, it is up to the customer and supplier to decide how the other count categories will be applied to the translation task at hand. The specification provides a flexible and comprehensive vocabulary for customizing this calculation, but does not attempt to mandate any one given solution.

2.15. XML Entity references

The built-in XML entity reference characters <, >, &, ", and ' will be counted as a single character for character counting purposes. It is a requirement of the GMX-V Canonical Form that all XML entity references are resolved prior to counting.

2.16. User Defined XML Entity references

When counting XML documents user defined entity references may be encountered. The GMX-V Canonical Form canonical form requires that all user defined entities must be fully resolved prior to counting.

2.17. Auto Text

Within a document it is possible to identify text segments that can be handled automatically. Items such as numeric values, e.g. 10 or 10,000.00, measurement units e.g. 10.5 mm, standard phrases or acronyms e.g. WYSIWYG or trade names e.g. "Weapons of Mass Destruction^TM".

It is possible to maintain word and character counts for such treatable text. This can be used to identify and charge for these categories at a different price. The categories will follow closely those defined in section 2.14.1 Qualitative Text Unit, although they will apply ONLY to 'unqualified' text units which do not have fuzzy matching.

Unqualified in this sense relates to text units that are not already covered by a qualitative category. This count category may be referred to as auto text for short.

2.18. Repetition counts

Within a document the same unmatched text units may occur multiple times. This fact can be exploited by translation software to automatically populate subsequent repeating text units once the first one has been translated. Subsequent occurrences can therefore be automatically qualified as 'repeat' text in the same manner as leveraged matched text. Auto text metrics can therefore only be applied to the first occurrence of the text unit and not those qualified as 'repeat' text units.

Repetition counts should be based on the non-normalized form of the text unit in order to insure that the repetition is based on the exact form of the text. For example text units with identical text but different inline elements are not repetitions.

2.19. Current Commercial Practice

Current commercial practice varies from product to product. There is no unified method of providing an industry wide set of metrics. The GMX-V specification provides a level of detail which provides an adequate way of reconciling GMX-V with metrics provided by commercial practice which is based on accepted standards such as Unicode TR29-9, SRX and XLIFF.

The actual makeup of the count is up to the supplier and customer.

3. Counts

The count element type attribute contains the count category. The following count categories are provided for:

Word Count Categories
Auto Text Word Count Categories
Character Count Categories
Auto Text Character Count Categories
Inline Element Count Categories
Linking Inline Element Count Categories
Text Unit Counts
Other Count Categories

Auto Text comprises automatically identifiable text such as numeric values, date and trade marks or model names that can be automatically processed or ignored during translation. Inline elements relate to elements that occur within the text units that are being counted. Linking Inline Element Count Categories relate to linking elements that occur within the text units that are being counted such as HTML 'a' elements.

3.1. Word Count Extension Mechanism

The count categories specified in this document are designed to accommodate the most frequent types of count encountered. While these cover the most commercial requirements it is envisaged that they will not be sufficient to cover all instances required. To this end an extension mechanism is provided. All extension count types will start with 'x-'. The following extension conventions apply:

All custom word count type attributes must end with the text: 'WordCount'.
All custom character count type attributes must end with the text: 'CharacterCount'.
All non-word and non-character custom count type attributes must end with the text: 'OtherCount'.
All non-translatable custom count categories must contain the text: 'NonTranslatable' before the count type text that ends the count type.
All translatable custom count categories must contain the text: 'Translatable' before the count type text that ends the count type.

An example of the use of the extension conversions would be 'x-SomeDescriptionOtherNonTranslatableTextUnitWordCount'. These conventions are designed to facilitate the accumulation of appropriate count categories automatically.

The following count concepts are fundamental to the GMX-V standard:

3.2. Word Count Categories

The following word counts will be provided by symbolic name:

TotalWordCount

Total word count - an accumulation of the word counts, both translatable and non-translatable, from the individual text units that make up the document.

Count categories for non-translatable words.

This is an accumulation of the word counts from the non-translatable categories of text units within the document. The following possible categories are proposed:

ProtectedWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for text that has been marked as 'protected', or otherwise not translatable (XLIFF text enclosed in <mrk mtype="protected"> elements).

ExactMatchedWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for text units that have been matched unambiguously with a prior translation and thus require no translator input.

LeveragedMatchedWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for text units that have been matched against a leveraged translation memory database.

RepetitionMatchedWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for repeating text units that have not been matched in any other form. Repetition matching is deemed to take precedence over fuzzy matching.

FuzzyMatchedWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for text units that have been fuzzy matched against a leveraged translation memory database.

AlphanumericOnlyTextUnitWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for text units that have been identified as containing only alphanumeric words.

NumericOnlyTextUnitWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for text units that have been identified as containing only numeric words.

MeasurementOnlyTextUnitWordCount

An accumulation of the word count from measurement-only text units.

The following is an example of the use of the extension mechanism for user defined word counts defined in the Section 3.1:

x-OtherNonTranslatableTextUnitWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for text units that have been identified as containing only other user-defined non-translatable words. The actual definition of the content and naming of the attribute is up to the supplier and customer with the one requirement that they begin with the sequence 'x-' and ends with the text NonTranslatableTextUnitWordCount.

x-TranslatableTextUnitWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for text units that have been identified as containing only other user-defined translatable words. The actual definition of the content and naming of the attribute is up to the supplier and customer with the one requirement that they begin with the sequence 'x-' and end with the text TranslatableTextUnitWordCount.

The actual translatable text count can be obtained by subtracting all of the above categories from the TotalWordCount, with the exception of LeveragedMatchedWordCount, FuzzyMatchedWordCount and RepetitionMatchedWordCount. These last three categories can be used to qualify the translation count itself.

3.3. Auto Text Word Count Categories

The following auto text categories are applicable to text from unqualified text units with the exception of fuzzy matched text units.

The following word counts will be provided by symbolic name:

SimpleNumericAutoTextWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for simple numeric values, e.g. 10.

ComplexNumericAutoTextWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for complex numeric values which include decimal and/or thousands separators, e.g. 10,000.00.

MeasurementAutoTextWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for identifiable measurement values, e.g. 10.50 mm. Measurement values take precedent over the above numeric categories. No double counting of these categories is allowed.

AlphaNumericAutoTextWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for identifiable alphanumeric words, e.g. AEG321.

DateAutoTextWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for identifiable dates, e.g. 25 June 1992.

TMAutoTextWordCount

An accumulation of the word count for identifiable trade marks, e.g. "Weapons of Mass Destruction^TM".

The following are examples of how to use the user defined extension mechanism for auto text word count categories defined in the Section 3.1::

x-OtherAutoTextWordCount

Other auto text word counts. The actual naming of the attribute is up to the supplier and customer with the one requirement that they begin with the sequence 'x-' and ends with the text OtherAutoTextWordCount. This is an extension mechanism.

3.4. Character Count Categories

The following character counts will be provided by symbolic name:

TotalCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character counts, both translatable and non-translatable, from the individual text units that make up the document. This count includes all non white space characters in the document (please refer to Section 2.7. White Space Characters for details of what constitutes white space characters), excluding inline markup and punctuation characters (please refer to Section 2.10. Punctuation Characters for details of what constitutes punctuation characters).

PunctuationCharacterCount

The total of all punctuation characters in the canonical form of text in the document that DO NOT form part of the character count as per section 2.10. Punctuation Characters.

WhiteSpaceCharacterCount

The total of all white space characters in the canonical form of the text units in the document. Please refer to section 2.7. White Space Characters for a detailed explanation of how white space characters are identified and counted.

Count categories for non-translatable characters.

This is an accumulation of the character counts from the non-translatable categories of text units within the document. The following possible categories are proposed:

ProtectedCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for text that has been marked as 'protected', or otherwise not translatable (XLIFF text enclosed in <mrk mtype="protected"> elements).

ExactMatchedCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for text units that have been matched unambiguously with a prior translation and require no translator input.

LeveragedMatchedCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for text units that have been matched against a leveraged translation memory database.

RepetitionMatchedCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for repeating text units that have not been matched in any other form. Repetition matching is deemed to take precedence over fuzzy matching.

FuzzyMatchedCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for text units that have a fuzzy match against a leveraged translation memory database.

AlphanumericOnlyTextUnitCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for text units that have been identified as containing only alphanumeric words.

NumericOnlyTextUnitCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for text units that have been identified as containing only numeric words.

MeasurementOnlyTextUnitCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count from measurement-only text units.

The following is an example of the use of the extension mechanism for user defined character counts defined in the Section 3.1:

x-OtherNonTranslatableTextUnitCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for text units that have been identified as containing only other user-defined non-translatable words. The actual definition of the content and naming of the attribute is up to the supplier and customer with the one requirement that they begin with the sequence 'x-' and ends with the text NonTranslatableTextUnitCharacterCount.

x-TranslatableTextUnitCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for text units that have been identified as containing only other user-defined translatable words. The actual definition of the content and naming of the attribute is up to the supplier and customer with the one requirement that they begin with the sequence 'x-' and ends with the text TranslatableTextUnitCharacterCount.

The actual translatable text count can be obtained by subtracting all of the above categories from the TotalCharacterCount, with the exception of LeveragedMatchedCharacterCount, FuzzyMatchedCharacterCount and RepetitionMatchedCharacterCount. These last three categories can be used to qualify the translation count itself.

3.5. Auto Text Character Count Categories

The following auto text categories are applicable to text from unqualified (see Section 2.14.2 Unqualified Text Units) text units.

The following character counts will be provided by symbolic name:

SimpleNumericAutoTextCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for simple numeric values, e.g. 10.

ComplexNumericAutoTextCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for complex numeric values which include decimal and/or thousands separators, e.g. 10,000.00.

MeasurementAutoTextCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for identifiable measurement values, e.g. 10.50 mm. Measurement values take precedent over the above numeric categories. No double counting of these categories is allowed.

AlphaNumericAutoTextCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for identifiable alphanumeric words, e.g. AEG321.

DateAutoTextCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for identifiable dates, e.g. 25 June 1992.

TMAutoTextCharacterCount

An accumulation of the character count for identifiable trade marks, e.g. "Weapons of Mass Destruction^TM".

The following is an example of the use of the extension mechanism for user defined auto text character counts defined in the Section 3.1:

x-OtherAutoTextCharacterCount

Other auto text character counts. The actual naming of the attribute is up to the supplier and customer with the one requirement that they begin with the sequence 'x-' and ends with the text AutoTextCharacterCount.

3.6. Inline Element Count Categories

The following counts will be maintained for non-linking inline elements by symbolic name:

Translatable inline element count:

TranslatableInlineCount

The actual non-linking inline element count for unqualified (see Section 2.14.2 Unqualified Text Units) text units.

Please refer to Section 2.11. Inline Element Counts for a detailed explanation and examples for this category.

3.7. Linking Inline Element Count Categories

The following count will be maintained for inline elements by symbolic name:

Translatable linking inline element count:

TranslatableLinkingInlineCount

The actual linking inline element count for unqualified (see Section 2.14.2 Unqualified Text Units) text units.

Please refer to Section 2.12. Linking Inline Elements for a detailed explanation and examples for this category.

3.8. Text Unit Counts

GMX-V is predicated on the text unit level of granularity (see 2.1. Text Unit). The text unit count encompasses the total number of identifiable text units in the document being counted . Any segmentation should be detailed in an SRX (Segmentation Rules eXchange format) compliant document.

TextUnitCount

The total number of text units.

3.9. Other Count Categories

The following other counts can be provided by symbolic name:

FileCount

The total number of files.

PageCount

The total number of pages.

ScreenCount

A count of the total number of screens.

x-OtherCountCategories

Other count categories. The actual naming of the attribute is up to the supplier and customer with the one requirement that they begin with the sequence 'x-'. This is an extension mechanism.

3.10. Project Specific Count Categories

The following project specific counts can be provided by symbolic name:

ProjectRepetionMatchedWordCount

The word count for text units that are identical within all files within a given project. The word count for the primary occurrence is not included in this count, only that of subsequent matches.

ProjectFuzzyMatchedWordCount

The word count for fuzzy matched text units within all files within a given project. The word count for the primary occurrence is not included in this count, only that of subsequent matches.

ProjectRepetionMatchedCharacterCount

The character count for text that is identical within all files within a given project. The character count for the primary occurrence is not included in this count, only that of subsequent matches.

ProjectFuzzyMatchedCharacterCount

The character count for fuzzy matched text within all files within a given project. The character count for the primary occurrence is not included in this count, only that of subsequent matches.

The ProjectRepetionMatched counts relate to identical text units that are repeated within a project. The First occurrence of the text unit is not counted. Only the second and subsequent occurrences are counted within the ProjectRepetionMatched counts. In a similar fashion the ProjectFuzzyMatched counts also relate to fuzzy matched counts that are repeated. The first base occurrence of the fuzzy text unit is not counted, only subsequent matches.

3.11. Conformance

A minimum conformance level will encompass the provision of the following categories of GMX-V for translation related tasks:

1. TotalWordCount

2. TotalCharacterCount

Over and above the minimum level of conformance for translation related tasks it is up to the tool supplier to provide the level of detail that is required from their product.

It is recommended that the full levels of detail are provided for both word and character counts, although it is acknowledged that this may depend on the capabilities of individual tools. For instance a given tool may not support auto text (see Section 2.17. Auto Text) and so would not be able to support auto text count categories (see 3.5. Automatically Treatable Text Character Count Categories).

For non translation related Global Information Management tasks there is no minimum level of conformance apart from the need to provide at least one count metric.

3.12. Validation

Any measurement standard must have a reference implementation as well as an authoritative body that tests and validates the measuring instruments. In the USA, this is provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In order to be successful, GMX-V must provide for a certification authority that will (1) maintain reference documents with known metrics and (2) provide an online facility to test given XLIFF documents. In this way, both customers and suppliers can be safe in the knowledge that GMX-V provides an unambiguous and reliable way of quantifying a Global Information Management task.

The validity of both the embedded namespace version and the stand alone version of GMX-V metrics can be validated by means of any standard XML parser. The stand alone version cannot be validated regarding word and character counts as the text to be counted is not present.

4. General Structure

The GMX-V document structure is designed to exist as a namespace so that it can be embedded into any document.

GMX-V can also be used in a stand alone XML document that expresses the metrics for an individual file or resource, or for a whole project. When used in a stand alone document it is recommended that the '.gmx' extension is used.

GMX-V comprises the following elements:

metrics

This is the top level element for GMX-V.

stage

GMX-V counts can be maintained for each stage in the workflow.

count-group

This is the main count group identifier. There are separate count-group elements for verifiable and non-verifiable counts.

count

The individual categorization, units of measure and values are declared in count elements.

project

The project element allows the grouping of of counts for individual resource components into one project count.

resource

The resource element is used to hold the counts for individual project resources when accumulating metrics for an overall project count.

GMX-V can be used to define the metrics for an individual file or resource, or for an accumulation of resources at the project level.

The following is an example of a GMX-V instance for a single file/resource:

<metrics:metrics version="1.0" source-language="en-GB" tool-name="XYZ Tool" tool-version="1.23">
    <metrics:stage phase="initial" date="20041218T13:06:52Z">
        <metrics:notes from="[email protected]">
            Initial count based on source document.
        </metrics:notes>
        <metrics:count-group name="non-verifiable">
            <metrics:count type="OC-TestingFiles" value="99"/>
            <metrics:count type="OC-DTPFiles" value="99"/>
            <metrics:count type="ScreenCount" value="99"/>
        </metrics:count-group>
        <metrics:count-group name="verifiable">
            <metrics:count type="TotalWordCount" value="99"/>
            <metrics:count type="TotalCharacterCount" value="99"/>
            <metrics:count type="TranslatableLinkingInlineCount" value="99"/>
        </metrics:count-group>
    </metrics:stage>
</metrics:metrics>

The following is an example of a GMX-V instance for a project within a stand alone document, where the use of the metrics namespace in not required:

<metrics version="1.0" source-language="en-GB" tool-name="XYZ Tool" tool-version="1.23">
  <project identifier="Project ABC">
    <resource identifier="file-1.abc">
      <stage phase="initial" date="20041218T13:06:52Z">
        <notes from="[email protected]">
            Initial count based on source document for the first resource.
        </notes>
        <count-group name="non-verifiable">
            <count type="OC-TestingFiles" value="99"/>
            <count type="OC-DTPFiles" value="99"/>
            <count type="ScreenCount" value="99"/>
        </count-group>
        <count-group name="verifiable">
            <count type="TotalWordCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="TotalWordCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="ProjectRepetionMatchedWordCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="ProjectFuzzyMatchedWordCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="ProjectRepetionMatchedCharacterCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="ProjectFuzzyMatchedCharacterCount" value="99"/>
        </count-group>
      </stage>
     </resource>
    <resource identifier="file-2.abc">
      <stage phase="initial" date="20041218T13:06:52Z">
        <notes from="[email protected]">
            Initial count based on source document for the first second resource.
        </notes>
        <count-group name="non-verifiable">
            <count type="OC-TestingFiles" value="99"/>
            <count type="OC-DTPFiles" value="99"/>
            <count type="ScreenCount" value="99"/>
        </count-group>
        <count-group name="verifiable">
            <count type="TotalWordCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="TotalWordCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="ProjectRepetionMatchedWordCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="ProjectFuzzyMatchedWordCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="ProjectRepetionMatchedCharacterCount" value="99"/>
            <count type="ProjectFuzzyMatchedCharacterCount" value="99"/>
        </count-group>
      </stage>
     </resource>
   </project>
</metrics>

Please note that there are a variety of count types of which only some basic examples are present in the examples above. A full list of count types is provided in the specification of the <count> element type attribute.

There are four type attributes that are specific to project specific counts:

ProjectRepetionMatchedWordCount
ProjectFuzzyMatchedWordCount
ProjectRepetionMatchedCharacterCount
ProjectFuzzyMatchedCharacterCount

4.1. Metrics Element

The <metrics> element is the top level of the hierarchy. It signals the start of the metrics namespace DOM tree. Its direct children are one or more <stage> elements, or one or more <project> elements when exchanging project based metrics. It is possible to maintain metrics for one or more stages, or one or more projects.

4.2. Project Element

The <project> element is used to accumulate the individual <resource> elements for a specific count when exchanging metrics for a whole project. This element is only used for project based counts.

4.3. Resource Element

The <resource> element holds the individual <stage> elements with the specific counts when exchanging metrics for a single file in a project. This element is only used for project based counts.

4.4. Stage Element

The <stage> element is used hold the <count-group> elements for a specific count stage, as well as one or more optional <notes> elements.

4.5. Notes Element

The <notes> element is used hold optional comments about the metrics stage.

4.6. Count Group Element

The <count-group> element is used to contain verifiable or non-verifiable <count> elements.

4.7. Count Element

The individual <count> elements hold the values of the count and identify the type of count.

5. Detailed Specification

5.1. GMX-V Namespace Declaration

The GMX-V document structure can exist either as a namespace within another document such as an XLIFF document, or within a standalone file. If GMX-V data is embedded within another document then a namsepace declaration will be required. The mandated namespace to be used is 'metrics'.

The GMX-V namespace declaration has the following form:

  xmlns:metrics="urn:lisa-metrics-tags"

If the GMX-V document exist within its own file, then by convention the file should have a '.gmx' extension. No namespace declaration is required in this instance.

5.2. Elements

Elements

5.2.1. Metrics

The topmost GMX-V element has the following format:

The <metrics> element encloses all the other GMX-V elements of the document.

Required attributes:

version - the fixed GMX-V current version identifier, currently "1.0".

source-language - the language in which the document is authored.

tool-name - The name of the tool that generated the metrics.

tool-version - The version identifier of the tool that generated the metrics.

Optional attributes:

target-language - the target language for the document. Only relevant if any translation memory matching has been done for a particular target language.

reference - a reference to an external file or identifier if the metrics are not embedded in the file that is being counted.

Contents:

One or more <stage> elements, or one or more <project> elements.

5.2.2. Project

The optional project element has the following format:

The <project> element can be used to group individual <resource> counts to provide a metric count for a complete project.

Required attributes:

NONE

Optional attributes:

identifier - the project identifier.

One or more <resource> elements.

5.2.3. Resource

The resource element has the following format:

The <resource> element contains the <stage> count elements for each resource.

Required attributes:

identifier - the resource identifier, e.g. the file name of the resource.

Optional attributes:

NONE

One or more <stage> elements.

5.2.4. Stage

The Stage element has the following format:

<stage>

Required attributes:

phase - The identifier for the stage.

date - the date that the stage count was created.

source-language - the source language for the stage.

Optional attributes:

target-language - the target language for the stage.

Contents:

One or more <count-group> elements.

5.2.5. Notes

The Notes element has the following format:

<notes>

Required attributes:

NONE

Optional attributes:

from - The email address or other identifier of the creator.

date - the date that the notes element was created.

Contents:

Comments text, no elements.

5.2.6. Count Group

The Count Group element has the following format:

<count-group>

Required attributes:

name - The count group name. This will have two possible values: verifiable or non-verifiable.

Optional attributes:

state - The count group state. This can be used to create count groups for different states during translation.

Contents:

One or more <count> elements.

5.2.7. Count

The Count element has the following format:

<count>

Required attributes:

type - The count type.

value - The quantity value.

Optional attributes:

category - The fuzzy match count category, e.g. "93-95".

Contents:

EMPTY

5.3. Attributes

This section lists the attributes used in the metrics elements. An attribute is never specified more than once for each element. Along with some of the attributes are the "Recommended Attribute Values". Values for these attributes are case sensitive. These lists are purely informative; the goal is to specify a preferred syntax so tools can have some level of compatibility.

attributes

category, date, from, identifier, name, phase, reference, source-language, state, target-language, tool-name, tool-version, type, value, version

5.3.1. GMX-V Attributes

Value	Description
final	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'final'.
needs-adaptation	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'needs-adaptation'.
needs-l10n	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'needs-l10n'.
needs-review-adaptation	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'needs-review-adaptation'.
needs-review-l10n	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'needs-review-l10n'.
needs-review-translation	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'needs-review-translation'.
needs-translation	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'needs-translation'.
new	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'new'.
signed-off	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'signed-off'.
translated	The count-group for XLIFF trans-units with target elements with a status attribute of 'translated'.

A. GMX-V Document Structure

The following figure shows the possible structure as a tree. Each element is followed by notation indicating its possible occurrence according to the corresponding legend.

(legend: 1 = one
         + = one or more
         ? = zero or one
         * = zero, one or more)

<metrics>1
|
+--- <project>+
|    |
|    +--- <resource>+
|         |
|         +--- <stage>+
|              |
|              +--- <notes>?
|              |
|              +--- <count-group>+
|              |
|              +--- <count>+
|
+--- <stage>+
     |
     +--- <notes>?
     |
     +--- <count-group>+
          |
          +--- <count>+

B.GMX-V Schema

The XML schema for GMX-V is available at: ~~http://www.lisa.org/standards/gmx/gmx-v.xsd~~ [http://www.gala-global.org/oscarStandards/gmx-v/gmx-v10.xsd]

C. References

Normative

[Unicode 4.1.0]

Unicode 4.1.0.

[Unicode Standard Annex #29-9]

Unicode Standard Annex #29 Version 4.1.0 Text Boundaries.

[Unicode Standard Annex #15]

Unicode Standard Annex #15 Version 4.1.0 Unicode Normalization Forms.

[IANA Charsets]

IANA Names for Character Sets. IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), Aug 2001

[ISO 639]

Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages. ISO (International Standards Organization), Nov 2001.

[ISO 3166]

Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. ISO (International Organization for Standardization), Jun 2000.

[ISO 8601]

Representation of dates and times. ISO (International Organization for Standardization), Dec 2000.

[RFC 4646]

RFC 4646 Tags for the Identification of Languages. IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), Sep 2006.

[SRX 2.0]

~~SRX 2 Specification~~. [SRX 2 Specification] LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association), 26 Feburary 2007.

[XLIFF 1.2]

XLIFF 1.2 Specification. OASIS XLIFF Committee Specification, May 2006

[Translation Web Services]

Translation Web Services Technical Committee

[XML 1.0]

eXtensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Second Edition. W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), Oct 2000.

[XML Names]

Namespaces in XML. W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), Jan 1999.

Non-Normative

[ISO]

International Organization for Standardization Web site.

[LISA]

Localization Industry Standards Association Web site.

[OSCAR]

OSCAR (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use) Web site.

[OASIS]

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Web site.

[W3C]

World Wide Web Consortium Web site.

D. Glossary

GIM

Global Information Management

GMX-V

Global Information Management Metrics eXchange.

OSCAR

LISA special interest group (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use).

Unicode

Unicode is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646 - universal character encoding standard.

UTC

UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time.

XLIFF

OASIS Standard for XML Localization Interchange File Format.

XML

eXtensible Markup Language.

XML Schema

XML Schema is a language for describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML documents.

DOM

W3C Document Object Model.

Global Information Management Metrics Volume (GMX-V) 1.0 Specification

Version 1.0, 26 February 2007

License Summary

Abstract

Status of this Document

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Key Concepts

2.1. Text Unit

2.2. Canonical Form

2.3. Unicode (ISO 10646)

2.4. Word Boundaries

2.5. Verifiable and Non-Verifiable Metrics

2.6. Inline Element Transparency

2.7. White Space Characters

2.8. Words

2.9. Characters

2.10. Punctuation Characters

2.11. Inline Element Counts

2.12. Linking Inline Elements

2.13. Logographic Scripts

2.14. Localization specific counts

2.14.1 Qualitative Text Unit Categorization

2.14.2 Unqualified Text Units

2.14.3 Translatable Text Counts

2.15. XML Entity references

2.16. User Defined XML Entity references

2.17. Auto Text

2.18. Repetition counts

2.19. Current Commercial Practice

3. Counts

3.1. Word Count Extension Mechanism

3.2. Word Count Categories

3.3. Auto Text Word Count Categories

3.4. Character Count Categories

3.5. Auto Text Character Count Categories

3.6. Inline Element Count Categories

3.7. Linking Inline Element Count Categories

3.8. Text Unit Counts

3.9. Other Count Categories

3.10. Project Specific Count Categories

3.11. Conformance

3.12. Validation

4. General Structure

4.1. Metrics Element

4.2. Project Element

4.3. Resource Element

4.4. Stage Element

4.5. Notes Element

4.6. Count Group Element

4.7. Count Element

5. Detailed Specification

5.1. GMX-V Namespace Declaration

5.2. Elements

5.2.1. Metrics

5.2.2. Project

5.2.3. Resource

5.2.4. Stage

5.2.5. Notes

5.2.6. Count Group

5.2.7. Count

5.3. Attributes

5.3.1. GMX-V Attributes

A. GMX-V Document Structure

B.GMX-V Schema

C. References

Normative

Non-Normative

D. Glossary