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Subject: Antwort: Re: [dita-comment] Interaction of "processing" and "translation" attribute


Thank you, Kris!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

i.A. Stefan Eike
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Von:        Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>
An:        dita-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Datum:        20.06.2017 20:56
Betreff:        Re: [dita-comment] Interaction of "processing" and "translation" attribute





Hi, Stefan.

The DITA TC discussed your e-mail today. The TC was unanimous in agreeing that the DITA tool vendor was interpreting the DITA specification incorrectly.

Resources referenced by <keydef> elements most certainly MUST be translated. This includes the content of topics, or text contained within a <topicmeta> element.

The defaulted presence of processing-role="resource-only" on a <keydef> element only indicates that the topic referenced should not be part of the navigational structure.

Unless elements have translate="no" specified, the content is intended to be translated.

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting

www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

On 6/1/2017 9:40 AM, Stefan Eike wrote:

Dear DITA TC,

I'm unsure about the interaction of the "processing" and the "translation" attributes. I had a discussion with one of our DITA tool vendors, and we interprete the specification differently.

Consider a <keydef>:

<keydef keys="foo" href="">
We have many <keydef> elements like this in our docs. We use <keydef> elements to point to "database topics". These topics should not be rendered in the output, but these database topics contain reusable textual elements (like <ph> or <dlentry>), that are conkeyrefed into rendered topics. A <keydef> element implicitely sets processing-role="resource-only". So for us, topics referenced with <keydef> should be translated, because they might contain text.

Our DITA tool vendor says, a <keydef> is resource-only and resource-only "things" should not be translated. I assumed, that the "resource-only" would not affect translations. I could not find a statement in the specs that determines that. I expected, that, by default, a <keydef> should be processed like any other element, so it should be "translated", unless translate="no" is set.


So I expected, that, if I'd like to avoid the translation of a <keydef> referenced topic, I would explicitely need to write:

<keydef keys="foo" href="" translate="no"/>

Could you please clarify?

Thank you and best regards,

Stefan Eike

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