<s>
The	O
Internationalization	B-Language
Tag	I-Language
Set	I-Language
(	O
ITS	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
attributes	O
and	O
elements	O
designed	O
to	O
provide	O
internationalization	B-General_Concept
and	I-General_Concept
localization	I-General_Concept
support	O
in	O
XML	B-Protocol
documents	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ITS	O
specification	O
identifies	O
concepts	O
(	O
called	O
"	O
ITS	O
data	O
categories	O
"	O
)	O
which	O
are	O
important	O
for	O
internationalization	B-General_Concept
and	I-General_Concept
localization	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
XML	B-Protocol
developers	O
can	O
use	O
this	O
namespace	O
to	O
integrate	O
internationalization	O
features	O
directly	O
into	O
their	O
own	O
XML	B-Protocol
schemas	O
and	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
vocabulary	O
is	O
designed	O
to	O
address	O
two	O
different	O
aspects	O
:	O
First	O
by	O
providing	O
markup	O
usable	O
directly	O
in	O
the	O
XML	B-Protocol
documents	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
following	O
ITS	O
markup	O
example	O
,	O
the	O
its:locNote	O
element	O
specifies	O
that	O
any	O
node	O
corresponding	O
to	O
the	O
XPath	B-Language
expression	I-Language
"	O
//msg/data	O
"	O
has	O
an	O
associated	O
note	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
location	O
of	O
that	O
note	O
is	O
expressed	O
by	O
the	O
locNotePointer	O
attribute	O
,	O
which	O
holds	O
a	O
relative	O
XPath	B-Language
expression	I-Language
pointing	O
to	O
the	O
node	O
where	O
the	O
note	O
is	O
,	O
here	O
="../	O
notes	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ITS	O
does	O
not	O
have	O
a	O
solution	O
to	O
all	O
XML	B-Protocol
internationalization	B-General_Concept
and	I-General_Concept
localization	I-General_Concept
issues	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
using	O
attributes	O
to	O
store	O
translatable	O
text	O
is	O
a	O
bad	O
idea	O
for	O
many	O
different	O
reasons	O
,	O
but	O
ITS	O
cannot	O
prevent	O
an	O
XML	B-Protocol
developer	O
from	O
making	O
such	O
choice	O
.	O
</s>
