RE: [xliff-comment] XLIFF 2.0 Core finished?

["Yves Savourel" <yves@opentag.com>]

> ...Actually, according to that wording, even an 
> empty element <target></target> would be non-compliant 
> unless the translation is precisely an empty string.
> 
> For some reason, nearly all tools generating XLIFF, 
> including the mainstream ones, are priming untranslated 
> target strings with source strings.

That's because, like Rodolfo interprets that the content of <target> can be blank, one can also interpret that a copy of the source is simply the translation in its initial form in a many steps process. After all the specification doesn't define what "translation" is.

Cheers,
-ys