RE: ACTION-447: Make a batch transformation of the test suite to xliff

Hi Felix,

> Why I wrote "nearly": in the below you write about HTML5 
> (and its successor, I assume) - but what about XHTML and the 
> other HTML flavours? I am having here again the Linguaserve workflow 
> in mind. Do we then require (or suggest via SHOULD) Linguaserve to 
> process against the default rule set in the XHTML workflow?

I would think yes. Since 2.0 is addressing HTML now we should do it for XHTML as well.
I would assume the same default rules would apply.

> Also, a detail: the rules would have no influence on precedence and overriding, 
> etc. right? - they are kind of assuming that each HTML element has an
> "invisible linked or external rules file" - which has the lowest precedence compared 
> to other rules, but a higher one than inheritance? E.g.

Yes. It corresponds to a non-linked rules file that any ITS processor can use as defined in the section 5.6:
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/drafts/its20/its20.html#associating-its-with-existing-markup

"Global rules can be associated with a given XML document using different means:
- By using an rules element in the document itself:
  - with the rules directly inside the document, as shown in Example 24
  - with a link to an external rules file using the XLink href attribute, as shown in Example 19
- By associating the rules and the document through a tool-specific mechanism. For example, for a command-line tool: providing the paths of both the XML document to process and its corresponding external rules file."

it's evaluated first, then all other rules are applied and override it if needed as defined per ITS.


> <span its-within-text="no"><span> ...</span></span>
> the inner span would be overriden by the 
> <its:withinTextRule withinText="yes"
>  selector="//h:abbr | //h:acronym | //h:br | //h:cite | //h:code | //h:dfn
>  | //h:kbd | //h:q | //h:samp | //h:span | //h:strong | //h:var | //h:b | //h:em
>  | //h:big | //h:hr | //h:i | //h:small | //h:sub | //h:sup | //h:tt | //h:del
>  | //h:ins | //h:bdo | //h:img | //h:a | //h:font | //h:center | //h:s | //h:strike
>  | //h:u | //h:isindex" />
> Taken from 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-i18n-bp/#relating-its-plus-xhtml

Mmm... You mean the reverse: The local its-within-text="no" markup would override the global (default) rules, right?

This is why knowing the default is important for the author.

The example of the keywords in <meta> is a good illustration:

If the default rules say that it's translatable, a translate='no' in <html> will not apply to it because the meta/@content node is already explicitly set to translate by the default rules (so translate='no' is not inherited because it has already been set). One would need to explicitly set translate='no' for //meta/@content[@name='keywords'] to not translate it.

-yves

Received on Friday, 22 February 2013 15:02:12 UTC