Re: ITS to XLIFF conversion and roundtripping

Hi Felix,

You wrote ..

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Hi all,

I have worked on ITS to XLIFF conversion and roundtripping, see

http://www.w3.org/International/its/wiki/ITS_Translate_Decorator#XLIFF_generation_and_roundtripping

There is still a lot to do, but this might be enough so that people can
play with it. I'm looking forward esp. towards feedback about the XLIFF
format.
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This is great. From my understanding it is an important additional step towards supporting ITS adoption.

Support for adoption from my point-of-view can amongst others be provided by addressing and exemplifying
two facets of working with the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS):

1.	Explain how to use ITS with an existing format 

Examples: 

	a. specify mappings in a formal way or to actually operationalize the mapping for conversion between formats (e.g. use "its:translate" to indicate which elements need to appear in an XML document which contains nothing but translatable content) 

	b. show how ITS can serve as a facilitator to bridge between a native format and XLIFF as the general purpose localization-related interchange format

2.	Give hints on how to build ITS processors

Example:

	Show (by means of a sample application) how to compute the ITS information that pertains to a node in an XML document (requires attention for support for selection mechanism, defaults / inheritance / overriding characteristics, and precedence). 

I wonder if it would make sense to address these two facets loosely coupled. With regard to the page/information you have put
together, this could boil down to tackling the decorator (which is related to 2. above) as one activity, and tackling the bridge
from the decorated XML to XLIFF (which is related to 1. above) as a separate activity. This separation of concerns could help with
a division of labour. It would for example enable an XLIFF expert to refine the sample transformation you have crafted.

Cheers,
Christian

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