XLIFF: Context for translators WAS: using xliff to translate

["Brian Stell" <brianstell00@aol.com>]

Nico,

Yves Savourel wrote:
 > On the behalf of Nico:
 >
 > ... in most cases an XML / XLIFF environment strips away the
 > translator's most vital aspect of his job, namely the context
 > of the element / sentence / string to translate.

The issue of "what's the context for this string" is a very
important issue.

It is a separate issue from how non-well-formed-XML is handled
so I've changed the title of this thread.

I suspect that the XLIFF spec tries to address this with the
<note> tag.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/documents/xliff-specification.htm#note

An alternate I see it being done is to produce a document
describing what the items are. This seems like a high effort
method.

Brian Stell