RE: [ISSUE-55] input to ITS2.0 section 1.4.5.2 'XLIFF Mapping'

Hi Dave,

Sounds good overall.

I'm not sure I understand completely the two parts of:

> 1) the mapping of ITS meta-data in a source document into XLIFF
> and ITS meta-data of the translatable content in XLIFF file;

What is the difference between source document and translatable content?
Yes, they are different things, but essentially it's the same thing: the source document.
 
-ys


From: Dave Lewis [mailto:dave.lewis@cs.tcd.ie] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:54 PM
To: public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org
Subject: [ISSUE-55] input to ITS2.0 section 1.4.5.2 'XLIFF Mapping'

Here's some suggested reworking of the text for this section of the ITS2.0 specification


"The XML Localization Interchange File Format [XLIFF] is an OASIS standard that enables translatable source text and its translation
to be passed between different tools within localisation and translation workflows. It has been widely implemented in translation
management systems, computer supported translation tools and in utilities for extracting translatable content from source documents.
The mapping between ITS and XLIFF therefore unpins several important ITS2.0 usage scenarios [MLW US IMPL]. These usage scenarios
involve: 1) the mapping of ITS meta-data in a source document into XLIFF and ITS meta-data of the translatable content in XLIFF
file; 2) the addition of ITS meta-data into an XLIFF file by translation tools; and 3) the mapping of ITS meta-data in an XLIFF file
into ITS meta-data in the resulting target language files. ITS 2.0 has no normative dependency on XLIFF, however a  non-normative
definition of how to represent ITS 2.0 data categories in XLIFF 1.2 or XLIFF 2.0 is being defined within the Internationalization
Tag Set Interest Group. 
 "


The current text adds:

"Readers of this specification are encouraged to evaluate whether that mapping fulfills their needs and to provide comments in
the ITS IG mailing list (public archive)."

but I think we should drop this for the recommendation as it may become (quickly) out of date once the mapping is firmed up.

cheers,
Dave

Received on Thursday, 30 May 2013 00:07:54 UTC