[xliff-comment] XLIFF and resizing information

[Nikolai Tsepalov <nikolait@earthlink.net>]

Hi All,

 

I’m trying to understand how XLIFF should handle resizing information.

Let’s take for instance Windows resource dialog with NO caption and two controls, label and edit box. 

 

IDD_DIALOG1 DIALOG DISCARDABLE  0, 0, 96, 28

STYLE WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_THICKFRAME

FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"

BEGIN

    EDITTEXT        IDC_EDIT1,35,7,53,14,ES_AUTOHSCROLL

    LTEXT           "Label:",IDC_STATIC,13,9,23,8

END

 

All of them should be resized and only label should be translated.

 

With label I have no question: <trans-unit> contains text to translate in <source> element, coordinates in coord attribute.

Localized text locates in <target> element and Localized coordinates in <target>‘s coord attribute.

 

Edit box has no text to translate. What should I do? Create <source> and <target> elements with no text?

 

Dialog is grouping element and also has no text to translate. So logically dialog's coordinates go to <group>’s coord attribute,

but where locale version of dialog coordinates should be located? According to specification <group> should not have <target> node.

If I have to create additional translation unit to hold locale version of group's coordinates, that looks very inelegant.

 

In general, in my opinion <group> and <trans-unit> have a lot in common,

may be better to combine them together in one element and add some attribute like ‘container=true’?

 

Please let me know, especially in you have information about some RC <-> XLIFF converter.

 

Thanks,

Nikolai.