RE: [xliff] Revised Committee Draft XLIFF 1.2 Spec

Dear all,

 

I wonder about the repurcussions of phrases like "tool makers can include the spaces 
in the markup". How will tool users be 
able to know what a specific tool maker really supports in his XLIFF 
implementation?

 

Best regards,

Christian

  

  
  From: Rodolfo M. Raya 
  [mailto:] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2006 
  19:20
To: Magnus Martikainen
Cc: XLIFF 
  TC
Subject: RE: [xliff] Revised Committee Draft XLIFF 1.2 
  Spec

  

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 02:17 -0700, Magnus Martikainen wrote: 
  Hi all, 
    

Regarding point 5) 
    below I would like to clarify that the segmentation markup is entirely 
    optional and does not affect the functionality of the files as XLIFF files. 
    The filter will ignore the segment boundaries when back-converting to the 
    native format, and thus the entire content of the <target> element 
    will be used, including content appearing outside of segments. 
    

The segmentation 
    markup is intended for tools such as translation memories to optimize 
    recycling of previously translated content, and as such it often makes more 
    sense to not include spaces between sentences in the segments (though that 
    is entirely up to the tools). This does not in any way prevent users from 
    editing the content between the segments, removing spaces or adding 
    additional ones as needed. In fact it is fully allowed (and may frequently 
    happen) that only part of the translated content in the <target> 
    element is part of segments.  

The example in point 5) attempts to explicitly show this by 
    not including the space characters in the segments (which normally gives 
    better re-use when applying a TM). Perhaps we need to clarify the text in 
    the specification to make that more 
  explicit?

Hi Magnus,

Thanks for the 
  explanation. 

I would be happy if the text below the example is 
  enhanced with a sentences stating that tool makers can include the spaces in 
  the markup if desired. 
Best regards,
Rodolfo

  
    
    

      
        
          
          

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