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Comment from Francois Richard, only entered into bugzilla by Felix: It would be useful to have an translateAddinfo attribute, to retrieve additional information during the translation / localization process. A sample use could be e.g. the retrieval of a stylesheet which is used to visualize the translatable text in "context" for the translator.
The working group discussed this, see http://www.w3.org/2006/02/22-i18nits-minutes.html#action09 . We decided not to implement this proposal. Although the idea seems useful to us too, it would be out of the scope of ITS. ITS scope is markup for "internationalization and localizability" of XML documents and schemas. The proposal goes rather in the area of the localization process itself.