Hi Rodolfo,
I absolutely agree that only having one pair of source and target languages per Xliff document is a good idea. Allowing one per <file> is just confusing for the end users, introduces partial failure modes or
complicates the implementation of some type of tools.
Regards,
Fredrik Estreen
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Subject: [xliff] Uniqueness of language pair
Hi,
In an XLIFF 1.2 document you may have multiple <file> elements and they could have different source/target languages. In theory, that would allow someone to create an XLIFF document with many copies of the same <file> element, each having
a different target language. In practice, that would be a bad idea as tools that work with XLIFF usually expect bilingual documents.
It might be interesting for XLIFF 2.0 to set source and target language in the <xliff> element and let all <file> children inherit the declared language pair.
Opinions?
Regards,
Rodolfo
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