[xliff] <bin-unit> problem

Hi All, 

I have just now come across a situation where we have icons that are being 
localized. In doing this we need to keep track of the change in size of the 
icon. However, the current definition of <bin-unit> does not have that 
information. In the <trans-unit> we have the coord attribute to store that 
info. Since we are at a 1.0 implementation, we could use a <prop> to give 
us that info but I prefer the <context> since we can codify it and make it 
understandable to translators, provided that the tools understand it.

 

   <bin-unit id="1" mime-type="image/gif" translate="yes" 
reformat="yes">
  
    <bin-source><external-file 
href="btnadvanced.gif"/></bin-source>
  
    <context-group name="translation">
   
     <context 
context-type="bin-coord">0;0;86;16</context>
  
    </context-group>
   </bin-unit>

 

The better solution would be to add coord as an attribute of 
<bin-unit> and <bin-target>. After all, what  does reformat 
control for <bin-unit>? The only attributes that could be reformatted are 
mime-type, restype, and resname. We may need the other following 
attributes:

 

coord            
<bin-unit> and <bin-target>

size-unit        <bin-unit> 
only

maxheight      <bin-unit> only

minheight       <bin-unit> 
only

maxwidth       <bin-unit> 
only

minwidth        <bin-unit> 
only

 

The above could then be expressed as follows.

 

   <bin-unit id="1" mime-type="image/gif" translate="yes" 
reformat="yes" coord="0;0;86;16">
  
    <bin-source><external-file 
href="btnadvanced.gif"/></bin-source>
   </bin-unit>

If someone has come across this same problem and found a different 
solution, I would appreciate the help. Otherwise, as much as I don't want to 
delay the process, we may want to consider taking care of this now. What do you 
think?

 

thanks,

john