Determining what <note> elements refer to

[john corrigan <John.Corrigan@Sun.COM>]

Hi all,

I have had a look at the XLIFF 1.1 committee spec. and it looks rather good. 

I have one comment to make. In the description for <note> it says: "The content of <note> may be instructions from developers about how to handle the  <source>, comments from the translator about the translation, or any comment from anyone involved in processing the XLIFF file."

However in <trans-unit> elements, the only way to determine whether a <note> refers to the <source> or the <target> is to rely on some convention for the 'from' attribute. I don't think this is how the 'from' attribute was intended to be used. Would it be possible to add another attribute to the note element to allow users indicate if a <note> refers to <source> or <target> elements?

This attribute should be optional, with a default value that indicates that the <note> doesn't annotate anything in particular. May I suggest calling the attribute 'annotates', with values drawn from, "source", "target", and "general". The value "general" would be the implied default.

Let me know what you think.

Regards,


John C.

P.S. Are there any plans to produce a standardized skeleton file format in future releases? - J.C.

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