RE: [xliff] term annotation

[Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>]

Hi David, all,

During the discussion about the Translation Candidate annotation I've been looking at the Term annotation and noticed a change that,
I think, we never discussed.

The new note in the Term Annotation section says:
[[
Note
In this annotation type, the XLIFF Core ref attribute is intended to allow for referencing of
terminology resources that are external to the XLIFF Document.
The Glossary uses its own gls:ref to reference its corresponding spans in source content
the other way round.
]]

I see two issues:

1) When did we decided to limit term references to external URIs?

The term annotation is about terminology, and terminology (as I've been sternly reminded several times by various people) is a lot
more than "localization glossaries" as defined in the Glossary module.

Therefore, it's perfectly valid for a future module or an extension to refer to some terminology data inside the document.

I think I've pointed the Tilde's TAWS example of TBX in 1.2 several times: http://taws.tilde.com/xliff. Why would we suddenly forbid
this?

2) Visibly the glossary module as no more link to the core: We don't use the term annotation to point to a glossary entry; and a
glossary entry doesn't have to use a term annotation as its reference (glossary ref: "points to a span of source text within the
same unit, to which the glossary entry is relevant.", which includes non-term annotations).

So, IMO (and in line with separating core from modules when possible), we should avoid in the core to have references (other than
examples) to modules.

I won't fight for issue #2, but I think #1 is important to correct.

Cheers,
-yves