Re: [xliff] ITS: Preserve space and Language Information

Thanks, Yves, inline

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com> wrote:

> Going from a structural element to an inline one in the Terminology case
> is easy: you don't lose anything.
> But forcing some inline formatting information to drive segmentation is
> completely different and very restrictive.
> In addition to losing granularity you also assume the segmentation is done
> by the extractor agent.
>
I don't understand what losing granularity means, as I understand
granularity, you get more of it IMHO, if you make whitespace handling and
language info structural..
Anyways, I see your point that it is not ideal to force Extractors to
segment in order to handle a relatively frequent extraction issue.
And i do see value in deferring the segmentation issues by putting the its
info inline..

>
> I see plenty of technical documents where inline formatting mixes spans of
> true text with fixed-space sections. Elements like <code>, <var>, <kbd>,
> etc. in HTML (and their counterparts in DITA, DocBook, etc.) are examples
> of such spans where the style often requires preserving the spaces. There
> is no way we can reasonably use segmentation to apply that information.
>
> The bottom line is that if we didn't have <sm/> we would not have this
> discussion and everyone would see xml:space and xml:lang as perfectly
> natural in <mrk>. This tells me the issue is how to represent those two
> features with <sm/>.
>
Yes

> Trying to rationalize how we can avoid inline cases is just wishful
> thinking.
>
> Ideally what we should have done in 2.0 was to allow xml:lang and
> xml:space in <mrk> and declare XLIFF Core attributes ‘space’ and ‘lang’ for
> <sm/> to work around the scope issue.
>
> But we are at 2.1 now, and we can't modify the Core.
>
Yes, we cannot

> So, in my opinion, using the ITS module to get an inline solution seems to
> be the best we can do now.
>
I agree
And I think it is actually better to have the inline semantics of these
attributes defined in one module..
So I am OK with defining those two  attributes in the its module namespace
Still, as I said in the other thread, I'd keep the informative description
of what you can do with core only, of course moved into the partial support
section..

Cheers
dF

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