Re: [all] Question on mapping best practices

Hi Yves, all,

a side note: would it be possible to document the XLIFF mapping
conversation? I don't mean the current state of the mapping, but the
discussion and meetings (e.g. in Seattle and the call today). Without any
minutes or at least summary it is hard to contribute or judge on proposes
to change ITS. The announcement that there is a discussion
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2012Oct/0249.html
and a follow up call doesn't provide a lot of details.

Wrt to your comments and ITS mechanisms: why use them at all? Why not
specifying the mapping in general, e.g. in a separate profile of ITS "how
to use ITS in XLIFF"? We then won't need to use any ITS mechanisms at all -
an ITS implementation can use the mapping or not.

Above answer may be not enough, let's take it from where.

Best,

Felix

2012/10/26 Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>

> Hi all,
>
> While mapping ITS to XLIFf we ran into cases of mapping that may occur
> elsewhere and for which an ITS guideline may be helpful.
>
> Here is the case:
>
> The localization note has two pieces of information:  a) the text of the
> note and b) a type (description|alert)
>
> When mapping an inline note to XLIFF we can use this:
>
> <mrk mtype='x-itsNote' comment='[text of the note]'
> its:locNoteType='alert'>...</mrk>
>
> Or this:
>
> <mrk mtype='x-itsNote' comment='[text of the note]'
> ZZZ:locNoteType='alert'>...</mrk>
>
> The comment attribute is where XLIFF is expected to put the note, and
> because there is no equivalent to the note type we use a non-XLIFF
> attribute there. The question is can/should we use the ITS attribute or
> another one?
>
> In both cases if we want to process the file with an ITS processor, we
> have to use global rules:
>
> <its:locNoteRule selector="//mrk[@its:locNoteType='alert']"
>  locNotePointer="@comment" locNoteType='alert'/>
>
> <its:locNoteRule selector="//mrk[@its:locNoteType='description']"
>  locNotePointer="@comment" locNoteType='description'/>
>
> or
>
> <its:locNoteRule selector="//mrk[@ZZZ:locNoteType='alert']"
>  locNotePointer="@comment" locNoteType='alert'/>
>
> <its:locNoteRule selector="//mrk[@ZZZ:locNoteType='description']"
>  locNotePointer="@comment" locNoteType='description'/>
>
> I think both would work.
> But we're not sure if the best thing to do for the local attribute is to
> use a native ITS attribute or define a new namespace and use something from
> there.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> -yves
>
>
>
>


-- 
Felix Sasaki
DFKI / W3C Fellow