Re: ITS Rule file (PR#119)

Many thanks for the feedback, John.

John Boyer wrote:
>
> Hi Felix,
>
> I am not an ITS expert, but I am pretty sure you didn't get it all 
> with that file.
sure. What we think is that this file encompasses the rules which should 
be relevant for all XForms documents. The files we proposed are only a 
basic ITS definition.

>
> What about literals in calculate, relevant, required, readonly?
from my understanding, e.g. calculate might contain translatable text in 
some cases, but in others not. I did not check for the other markup in 
your list above. However, the rules we supplied are for the general case.
> What about content in xforms instance?  This is raw data, not subject 
> to translation... necessarily.
>
> What about things like xforms labels, which could express their 
> content directly (making translation easy) or which could express 
> their content using binding attributes to instance data (making it 
> much harder to determine what must be translated).
>
> I'm not being exhaustive here...

I'd propose the following:
- having an appendix with the small rules we proposed
- having in that appendix a paragraph which describes the need for 
XForms users to define ITS rules on their own - depending on the cases 
you described.

What do you think?

Felix
>

Received on Wednesday, 31 October 2007 07:52:38 UTC