Cloning of <g> elements

Hi all,

 

Following a discussion in the segmentation
subcommittee today I took an action item to post a question to the main XLIFF
committee requesting a clarification on how cloning of <g> elements
should work.

 

As you may be aware, the <g> element has an
optional attribute named clone, with a default value “yes”. This
implies that all <g> elements that do not have an explicit clone=”no”
attribute value may be cloned by any tool processing the XLIFF content.

 

This functionality is of special interest to the
segmentation subcommittee, and our current work-in-progress proposal for
representation of segments relies on the ability to clone <g> elements
that span segment boundaries in order to be able to introduce segments.

 

For these reasons I would like to have the following
assumptions confirmed:

a)       When
a <g> element is cloned, all attribute values of the original <g>
element, including the id and xid values, are replicated into the clone.

 

Example: 

<source>Some
<g id=”1” ctype=”bold” xid=”42” ts=”offset:983”>marked-up</g>
text.</source>

<target>Some
<g id=”1” ctype=”bold” xid=”42” ts=”offset:983”>translated</g>
marked-up <g id=”1” ctype=”bold” xid=”42”
ts=”offset:983”>text</g>.</target>

 

 

b)      The
current specification mentions that multiple copies of the source <g>
element may be placed in the <target> content. For segmentation purposes
we would also need to clone them inside <source>. Would this be a
reasonable extension?

 

Whatever the outcome I would suggest that we update
the XLIFF 1.1 specification to clarify how this mechanism is intended to work.

 

Best regards,

Magnus Martikainen