Proposal For Change Tracking in XLIFF 2.1

[Phil Ritchie <Phil.Ritchie@vistatec.com>]

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Please find our proposal for modifications to Change Tracking for XLIFF 2.1.

 

Attached are modified *.xsd, a sample *.xlf with serialzed changes and proposed changes to the specification text.

 

We forked the Okapi library and our Pull Request can be viewed here: https://bitbucket.org/okapiframework/xliff-toolkit/pull-requests/1/chane-trackin-module-implementation/diff

 

Phil

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; elementFormDefault="qualified"
    xmlns:ctr="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:changetracking:2.0" xmlns:xlf="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:2.0"
    targetNamespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:changetracking:2.0">

	 <!-- Import -->

  <xs:import namespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:2.0"
      schemaLocation="../xliff_core_2.0.xsd"/>

  <!-- Elements for change tracking -->

  <xs:element name="changeTrack">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="ctr:revisions"/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>

  <xs:element name="revisions">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="ctr:revision"/>
      </xs:sequence>
      <xs:attribute name="appliesTo" use="required" type="xs:NMTOKEN"/>
      <xs:attribute name="ref" use="optional" type="xs:NMTOKEN"/>
      <xs:attribute name="currentVersion" use="optional" type="xs:NMTOKEN"/>
      <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>

  <xs:element name="revision">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="ctr:item"/>
      </xs:sequence>
      <xs:attribute name="author" use="optional"/>
      <xs:attribute name="datetime" use="optional"/>
      <xs:attribute name="version" use="optional" type="xs:NMTOKEN"/>
      <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>

  <xs:element name="item">
    <xs:complexType mixed="true">
	 <!-- Added the following line for allowing inline annotations in item element -->
	  <xs:group ref="xlf:inline" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xs:attribute name="property" use="required"/>
      <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>

</xs:schema>

item
Container for a specific revision associated with a sibling element, or a child of a sibling element, to the change track module within the scope of the enclosing element.

Contains:

- Text
- Zero, one or more <cp> elements
- Zero, one or more <ph> elements
- Zero, one or more <pc> elements
- Zero, one or more <sc> elements
- Zero, one or more <ec> elements
- Zero, one or more <mrk> elements
- Zero, one or more <sm> elements
- Zero, one or more <em> elements

Constraints: 

- It can contain any of <cp>, <ph>, <pc>, <sc>, <ec>, <mrk, <sm>, <em> elements if and only if the following are true:
	- The value of the attribute "appliesTo" of the parent <revisions> element is either "source" or "target".
	- The "property" attribute of the <item> element is set to "content"

If the above conditions are not met, then only plain text is allowed.
	
Attributes:

- property, REQUIRED
- attributes from other namespaces, OPTIONAL

Attachment: ctrsample.xlf
Description: ctrsample.xlf