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[David Mas <david.mas@scytl.com>]

Hi,
First of all I would like to thank you all for your attention on the issue of the referendum options internationalization.

In respect of your proposal I agree with you that 'ProposalItem' can be used for internationalizing but, is it an optimal way of doing it?
Using a 'ProposalItem' seems a denormalization of the data represented (localized referendum questions and answers): 

Each 'ProposalItem' element can represent a question or answer in one language, so if we had a referendum question with 3 possible answers localized in 3 languages, we would need 12 'ProposalItem' elements to represent it fully (1 question text + 3 answer text times 3 languages to internationalize). This only goes a little worse because of the multiplicity of its parent element 'Proposal'. In the end we would need 12 'Election' elements (each of them with their mandatory 'ElectionIdentifier'). And that is just for a single question!

For the actual development we will use your approach but we also would like to suggest some improvements on this message for your consideration:
- As it is now, the 'Election' tag accepts a single element. Wouldn't it be better to allow it to contain multiple 'Proposal' elements (one for each contest) inside the 'Election'?
- Also, the 'Proposal' could allow to define all its related answers (Options) inside, by using a 'MessagesStructure' which is the perfect element to allow internationalization.
- Please note that these do not imply the suppression of the identifier elements, and simplifies the structure (and thus the parsing and generation) of the message.

Regards,


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