RE: ITS rules in XLIFF

Hi Nathan,

 

Not sure if I understand the issue.

 

In general the global rules that carry data in your XML file will be seen as ITS 'properties' attached to the pointed node, when
processing the XML input for extraction. So, that's correct that you cannot tell where they are coming from, and therefore you
cannot really update them when merging back.

 

As you pointed out, the current mapping uses elements like <note> or attributes like comment to store the data. That is because it
tries to re-use what the XLIFF 1.2 format provides.

In a few cases like Terminology you could use xlfits:termInfoRef to point to an elements in the XLIFF that is from your own
namespace and hold additional info about how to feedback the potentially modified info.

 

I'm not sure if that helps,

-yves

 

 

From: Nathan Glenn [mailto:garfieldnate@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 2:07 PM
To: Yves Savourel
Cc: public-i18n-its-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: ITS rules in XLIFF

 

Thanks. I wonder if it's worth even trying to preserve global rules in my application. If I were to create an XLIFF file for a given
XML file, and also try to preserve the global rules by making them point to new nodes in the XLIFF file, is there any generic place
where I could put the contents contained by nodes selected through *Pointer attributes in the rules, or would I have to use the
specific locations that differ for each type of ITS (e.g. its:termInfo, itsxlf:domains or a <note> element)?

 

Nathan

 

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com> wrote:

Hi Nathan, 

 

Yes, the mapping doesn't use global rules. The idea is that an XLIFF processor should be able to add support for ITS by just
implementing support for the attributes defined by the mapping.

 

This doesn't prevent an ITS processor to support XLIFF by having global rules describing the XLIFF features, just like for any other
XML format.

 

-ys

 

 

From: Nathan Glenn [mailto:garfieldnate@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 12:18 AM
To: public-i18n-its-ig@w3.org
Subject: ITS rules in XLIFF

 

Hi all (especially Yves),

I'd like to confirm an observation on ITS in XLIFF. At least judging by the mapping documentation, it seems that ITS in XLIFF does
not allow for global rules of any kind, and that during mapping all rule matches must be turned into local attributes of some kind.
Is this correct?

Nathan