Hi
all,
It
might make sense to say a word again about my original motivation for including
both
XUL-
and XSD-related items:
I was
assuming that we where looking for a kind of 'superset' of items to which
items from specific
sets
(e.g. those belonging to Windows RC files) could be mapped. My
specific line of thought was
to
create mapping tables which reveal how the individual sets would be
mapped to the superset. This
approach appealed to me since on the
one hand the superset would give us a comprehensive
layer of
abstraction, and the mapping tables would
leave no doubt about what representations for example
of
Windows RC items have to look like in XLIFF.
The
only alternative to this 'superset and mandatory mapping' approach to me
would be the consequent
use of
the namespace mechanism (which for example might render Windows RC specific
information
in
XLIFF as 'item="winRC:X"'). Of course this alternative approach could
boil down to a completely different approach
for
tool suppliers. Possibly, they would no longer work on rendering XLIFF,
but would look into XLIFF files,
see
that they are really 'wrappers' for say Windows RC files, and then would use
Windows RC
related functionality for further
processing.
Best,
Christian
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Levins
[mailto:]
Sent: Donnerstag, 27. M酺z 2003
14:06
To: Tony Jewtushenko <Tony.Jewtushenko
Cc:
Subject: Re: [xliff] Final Consolidated
Restype Attributes List
Hi
Tony,
After having another look
through this list I feel I have to raise a concern I have towards including all
of the XUL elements and the granularity it provides for XUL, which we are not
necessarily be providing for other formats (I would not be too kean on reading
the list if we went down that road).
Basically, including all of the XUL elements includes too many spurious
values that may never be used.
An
example of my concern is evident in the following list of XUL elements
tree
treecell
treecol
treecols
treeitem
treerow
treechildren
Here the actual resource type is a tree control
described by the first element, <tree>. All of the rest of these elements
then describe aspects of the tree control and can only exist as child elements
of <tree> in XUL. Extending on this, <treecols> in XUL is just a
placeholder for containing multiple <treecol> elements and therefore
provides no specific useful information in XLIFF and I cannot see how it could
ever be used.
IMHO, I see the
following options:
1. Prune the list of
XUL elements to only include root 'restypes', such as <tree> in the above
example and further reduce the list through commonality with the other non-XUL
values.
2. Add one 'XUL' restype and
indicate that the actual XUL type be specified through an additional namespaced
attribute via an attribute extension point
3. Use only XUL elements
4. Leave
the extensive list as is (ouch!)
Regards,
Mark
Levins
IBM Software Group,
Dublin
Software Laboratory,
Airways Industrial Estate,
Cloghran,
Dublin
17,
Ireland.
Phone: +353 1 704 6676
IBM
Tie Line 166676
Tony Jewtushenko
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26/03/2003 20:24
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[xliff] Final
Consolidated Restype Attributes List
All:
Please review the attached
HTML and Excel spreadsheet for legibility,
accuracy and
completeness.
Please note that I've
assigned as owner the original submittor, or
subsequent resubmittor,
or in some cases my best guess as to who may
own the item. I may
not have gotten the owners quite right, so it's up
to you to review to
make sure any items important to you are represented
correctly. Also,
please forgive me if I've omitted mention of your
name as submitter - I
will correct any mistakes once they're reported to
me. Anyone is free
to submit their suggestions - responses are not
limited to assigned
owners.
I'd prefer if you return to me the
XLS file rather than HTML file.
Please indicate if the item should have
status of
Approved,Deprecated,Rejected.
Please fill in a description when one is
lacking, or feel free to edit
the existing description. And finally,
please fill in your name in next to the item you're reviewing and
feel
free to add any comments in the appropriate
column.
The end of day Friday (per any
timezone you like) is the cutoff for
returning to me your signed off lists.
After this deadline, any items
not explicitly approved will be
assumed to be rejected.
Regards,
Tony
--
Tony
Jewtushenko
mailto:
Sr. Tools Program Manager
direct tel: +353.1.8039080
Product Management - Tools Technology
Team
Oracle Corporation, Ireland
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