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Subject: RE: [xliff] Fwd: Updated XLIFF 1.1 Representation Guide for Gettext PO
All, The profile looks great. It definitely shows a lot of good work. I'm very pleased with the quality of the profile. I'm not experienced in PO files, but have a couple comments regarding use of the XLIFF <ph> tags. Section 3.4 Handling of Escape Sequences in Software Messages Escape sequences for common control character like newline ('\n') are represented in XLIFF using the <ph> element, as in <ph id='1' ctype='lb'>\n</ph>. This approach closely couples the translation of the human language with the computer language used to render it. I believe a more abstract representation would allow better separation between human and computer language. For example, <x id='1' ctype='lb' /> Then the translation is applicable to any computer language that can render a line break, whether it uses '\n', or other notation. Section 5.6.3 X-format Similarly, the "%s" and "%d" notations are kept in the XLIFF <ph> tag as <ph id="1" ctype="x-c-param">%s</ph>, where the ctype attribute value specifies the computer language of the notation (as listed in Table 4). For example, <x id="1" ctype="x-string-param" /> Here I realize that the format may be more complex. For example, an ANSI C format may be "%+03.2ld". In this case, it seems appropriate to keep the format within <ph> tags. It wouldn't be required because the format could be stored in the skeleton file. However, for convenience, keeping it in the <ph> is reasonable. Your comments and comments from the rest of the XLIFF committee are welcome. Regards, Doug Domeny -----Original Message----- From: Paul Gampe [mailto:pgampe@redhat.com] Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 1:27 PM To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [xliff] Fwd: Updated XLIFF 1.1 Representation Guide for Gettext PO Apologies for the delay in passing this forward. I would like to proceed to issue the ballot to approve this submission this week. Kind regards, Paul
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