Tony,
My comments follow:
> I have heard back from Karl, and the definition of "substantive" is
> subjective, and totally up to the individual TC to determine if
changes
> to spec warrant conducting another peer review period. From our
> previous discussions, I infer that the TC would consider these
changes
> to be non-substantive, and therefore we would chose against having
> another peer review.
Good. I agree. This is not substantive unless we change current meaning
and usage.
> Good points about the <note> annotates attrib. However, regarding
your
> reading of the <note> spec, John, the present 1.1 spec is totally
> ambiguous about what <note> refers to and does not specify that note
> refers to <source>. The present definition says:
>
> "The content of <note> may be instructions from developers about
how
> to handle the <source>, comments from the translator about the
> translation, or any comment from anyone involved in processing
the
> XLIFF file.".
>
> Please look carefully at the word "may" - it indicates that the
content
> of note can refer to anything at all, including "comments from the
> translator about the translation (e.g., target)". So the spec prose
> regarding "<source>" is simply an example of possible usage and not
> canonical.
I was not clear. For the <trans-unit>, not the <note>, the 1.1 spec
says,
"All child elements of <trans-unit> pertain to their sibling <source>
element."
Thus, a strict reading of this says any <note> in a <trans-unit>
pertains to the <source>. It would be the <trans-unit> that would need
changing. Maybe the ambiguity of <note> could be addressed another
time.
> In any case, it looks like we may need to abort this ballot item,
but
> I can't do it until we reconvene the meeting next week. ...
I don't believe we can abort a ballot item. If it doesn't pass, we can
consider alternatives as you and I have discussed.
It might be that others think my interpretation is too strict and that
no change is required to the <trans-unit>. A simple change to the
<trans-unit> statement, above, such as, "All child elements of
<trans-unit> pertain to their sibling <source> element, unless noted or
logically related otherwise."
