Fwd: Question on Timed Text Markup Language (TTML)

Could someone help Richard here ?

Thanks.


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Subject: Question on Timed Text Markup Language (TTML)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:37:07 +0000
From: Richard, Francois <francois.richard@hp.com>


I work for Hewlett-Packard (actually based in Grenoble) and my group 
charter is to deploy Translation tools and technologies within HP.
We recently received some TTML files that we need to process through our 
TMS  (Translation management system). I had a look at it and I am bit 
surprised by the use of paragraph element. In the sample file I received 
(see snippet below), the notion of linguistic "paragraph" is not 
preserved, resulting in what could considered as concatenation or 
artificial split of grammatical sentences:
         <p begin='00:00:02.130' end='00:00:04.290' style="4">The print 
industry clearly is shrinking</p>
         <p begin='00:00:04.290' end='00:00:06.310' style="4">and 
shrinking substantially.</p>

I checked http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20130131/ and I am 
surprised to see that it is there too:

     <p xml:id="subtitle1" begin="0.76s" end="3.45s">
       It seems a paradox, does it not,
     </p>
     <p xml:id="subtitle2" begin="5.0s" end="10.0s">
       that the image formed on<br/>
       the Retina should be inverted?
     </p>

Is this done on purpose? I understand there is a need to support some 
"timing" information, but I do not understand why defining these 
attributes at the <p> element level, forcing grammatical sentences to be 
split across multiple "paragraphs"....
Can you help?

François Richard
Globalization Tec Lead
Digital Publishing and Operations

francois.richard@hp.com<mailto:francois.richard@hp.com>
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Please print thoughtfully

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