GMX-V

GMX-V (Global Information Management Metrics eXchange - Volume: Word and Character Count Standard) is a word and character count standard for electronic documents. GMX-V is developed and maintained by OSCAR (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use), a special interest group of LISA (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

GMX-V forms part of the Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization (OAXAL) reference architecture.

Scope 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

External links

• GMX-V page on the LISA OSCAR web site
• GMX-V specification