GMX-V

GMX-V

GMX-V Global Information Management Metrics eXchange - Volume: Word and Character Count Standard

GMX-V is a word and character count standard for electronic documents. GMX-V is developed and maintained by OSCAR [ [http://www.lisa.org/sigs/oscar/ OSCAR] - Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use] (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use), a special interest group of LISA [ [http://www.lisa.org/index.html LISA] - Localization Industry Standards Association] (Localization Industry Standards Association).

GMX-V is one of the tripartite series of standards from the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA). GMX-V deals with electronic document metrics.

GMX is made up of the following standards:

* GMX-V - Volume
* GMX-C - Complexity
* GMX-Q - Quality

cope and Primary Goal

GMX-V is designed to fulfill two primary roles:
* Establish a verifiable way of calculating the primary word and character counts for a given electronic document.
* Establish a specific XML vocabulary that enables the automatic exchange of metric data

Description

GMX-V is itself based on other well established standards:
* Unicode 5.0 normalized form
* Unicode Technical Report 29 – Text Boundaries
* OASIS XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) 1.2
* LISA OSCAR Segmentation Rules Exchange (SRX) 2.0

References

External links

* [http://www.lisa.org/standards/gmx/ GMX-V page on the LISA OSCAR web site]