ITS <-> XLIFF prototype

Title: XLIFF output

FYI
– some of you may find this interesting, especially those who are
interested in transformation between DITA and XLIFF. If you have any comments or
suggestions about the XLIFF representation, please pass them directly onto
Yves.

 

Also, note that Yves indicates that a new
revision to the ITS spec daft will be posted shortly – and it may be one
of the last final drafts so get your comments in as soon as possible.

 

Regards,

Tony

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Yves Savourel
[mailto:] 

Sent: 05 April 2006 02:07

To: Tony Jewtushenko; Peter
Reynolds; Bryan Schnabel

Subject: XLIFF output

Importance: Low

 

Hi all, 

Just a note to let you know that I finally got around setting up
that small web site where you can tryout output from XML to XLIFF: <http://okapi.translate.com/Utilities/ITSTest.aspx>

It's based on ITS so not all features are implemented yet since
it's a moving target right now. There is also a few bugs (one lethal that
occures in some still mysterious cases some empty elements). But the built-in
examples should help. It generates XLIFF 1.2 (as far as I can tell).

I'll try to improve it as ITS becomes more stable. Especially I
nstill eed to implement the its:withinText feature to get some cases correctly
broken-down into trans-units. [By the way we should have a new publication of
the Draft in a few days. We are closing in to the Last Call Draft, so it'll be
a good time to give us feedback if you have any].

The same code is also used in the Okapi XML Filter used with
Rainbow. This will be obviously more useable for real projects. It has not been
released yet as an official Release (that will come next round), but the source
code is available: <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/okapi/Okapi/Dev/NET/Source/Format/XML/>
(Note: it takes a few days for that public CVS repository to be updated from
the real one, so the files there are sometimes a bit outdated)

Cheers, 

-yves