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Subject: RE: [xliff] Possible additional optional attribute for helping word-count
Mtg: This needs to be discussed later. > -----Original Message----- > From: Yves Savourel [mailto:ysavourel@translate.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:09 PM > To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [xliff] Possible additional optional attribute for helping > word-count > > Hi, > > Related to the topic of counting, there is one aspect where we could add > an attribute to help tool process the text more efficiently. > > Currently when processing a <source> or a <target> element there is no way > to know how an inline code such as <bpt>, or <x/> should affect the word > breaking. While the majority of original codes are most likely not to be > seen as separator (.e.g. <b>...</b> in HTML) a few are word breaker (e.g. > <br/>). > > It may be useful to have an additional optional attribute in <bpt>, <it>, > <ph>, <g/>, <x/>, <bx/>, and <ex/> to indicate whether the code should be > considered a word separator or not. > > Something like word-break="yes|no" (or 'wb' to keep with the short name > tradition). The default would be "no". For example: > > <source>Line one<ph id="1" wb="yes">\n</ph>Line two</source> > > > Cheers, > -yves >
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