- From: Dave Lewis <dave.lewis@cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:53:36 +0100
- To: public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org
Would I be correct that the main advantage of using its:span is that they can be more easily stripped out after the completion of a process that inserts ITS markup at a segment level, e.g. translation followed by QA? This seems an important use case to me. Otherwise when it comes to removing ITS markup that is no longer required, it becomes difficult to differentiate spans added by an ITS-aware process from pre-existing spans to which ITS attributes were added. Should there be some mentioned therefore of its use in the spec, say in section where the its-span element is defined: http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/drafts/its20/its20.html#selection-local cheers, Dave On 10/09/2012 08:39, Jirka Kosek wrote: > On 8.9.2012 18:08, Shaun McCance wrote: > >> I thought surely this is redundant, that its:span should be >> within text by default. Otherwise we basically always have >> to add that attribute when we use it for anything else. But >> then I couldn't find that anywhere in the ITS spec, and I >> realized itstool doesn't currently do that. >> >> I think its:span should defined to be within text by default. >> Thoughts? > Hi Shaun, > > this seem reasonable. On the other hand it will break backward > compatibility. But probably we don't have to care -- I have never seen > its:span used except test files? Is anyone using it? Almost all XML > formats have their own element similar to span. > > Jirka >
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