Re: [xliff-comment] Re: [xliff] FW: [xliff-comment] Purpose ofname attribute for <context-group>

["Rodolfo M. Raya" <rmraya@heartsome.net>]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:41 +1000, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:

Hi,


> > The <context-group> element holds context elements relating to the level
> > in the tree in which it occurs. Thus context can be set at a <group>
> > level, a <trans-unit>  level, or a <alt-trans> level.
> >
> > Context can be overridden by adding a new <context-group> at the desired
> > level. It is not necessary to set the same value for the "name"
> > attribute, as context applies to the level where it is present and does
> > not require to be matched with anything..
> 
> That does however imply that you only have one <context-group> element
> at each level. 


No, that's incorrect. There is no restriction in the number of
<context-group> elements you can have at each level.


> What happens if you have multiple named groups at each
> level for different purposes? E.g. what if I have one context-group
> that gives further info to the translator about the context, and one
> that is for TM matching. Quoting the XLIFF 1.2 spec (2.3. Named
> Groups): "A different named group could be stored by the client,
> translator, reviewer, and localization engineer. 


You can have all the named groups that you want, provided that they all
have a different name.


> Processing instructions could inform a system which of these <count-group> to
> update during the localization process." Sounds good to me, but this
> is practically impossible! You would have to write a separate
> processing instruction for each and every named group (e.g. for each
> translation unit).



You can use prefixes, for example, to differentiate the different kinds
of groups to process. This is not a problem at all.


> I am fully aware about the fact that the current spec enforces
> uniqueness on the name attribute, but what I'm after is *a reasoning
> behind this* from the XLIFF TC. 


I can't answer that because I ignore the reasons for the change.

Regards,
Rodolfo
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