RE: [xliff] R37: Revised Validations Module proposal

[Ryan King <ryanki@microsoft.com>]

Hi Yves, all,

Yes, escaping the pipe would be a much simpler solution to the original proposal. However, I think parenthesis is a better solution because it rules out ambiguity. For example, the following are not the same:

mustLoc="World|Welt"
mustLoc="World | Welt"
mustLoc=" World | Welt "

But I might think they are and the only difference between them is making the value more human readable. Whereas, the following is less ambiguous:

mustLoc="(World) (Welt)"
mustLoc="( World ) ( Welt )"

Other opinions are welcome, of course.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Yves Savourel
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:37 AM
To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [xliff] R37: Revised Validations Module proposal

Hi Ryan,

> We suggest that for mustLoc, we enclose the source and replacement 
> target values in parenthesis, like so: mustLoc="(World) (Welt)"
> If for any reason, a parenthesis is required to be translated, as a 
> brace for example, we could escape it like so:
> mustLoc="(\(World\)) ({Welt})" 
> Since we are generalizing the dblSpace to occurrences, then we could 
> do something similar there as well: occurrences="(|) (3)"
> For example, where 3 pipes need to occur in the target for whatever reason.

Wouldn't it be simpler if we were to escape '|' with '\':
That would be only less escaping to do.

-ys



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