Re: targetPointer Requirement update

2012/5/4 Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>

> Hi Dave, all,
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> > However, this explanation does make me think the
> > use case is out of scope for ITS 2.0.  because:
> > ...
> > ii) There are already standard file formats, i.e. XLIFF,
> > TMX, that support this.
> > ... not using these is not best practice.
> > So it doesn't seem in scope to develop a standard
> > solution for something that isn't best practice or
> > in general is needed solely to support issues in
> > proprietary formats.
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> XLIFF and TMX are precisely why something like targetPointer is needed.
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> ITS is not meant just for translation. As applications like Tadej's
> Enrycher show, one may want to perform other linguistic-related tasks (e.g.
> semantic tagging, spell-checking, data-mining, alignment, creation of an
> MT-generated TM, etc).
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> I think we should expect any XML tool that ITS2-aware to be able to read a
> document in format XYZ only knowing its ITS properties. It shouldn't need
> to know about XLIFF or TMX to process XLIFF or TMX documents.


A big +1.

Felix


> Currently such application cannot read an XLIFF document properly.
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> Cheers,
> -yves
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Felix Sasaki
DFKI / W3C Fellow