RE: [xliff-inline] Editing operations and spliting segment

["Estreen, Fredrik" <Fredrik.Estreen@lionbridge.com>]

Hi Yves,

Yes an align tool that know how to do this properly could do it. What I'm afraid of is gracious splitting. I did not know about an order attribute on target but with such it would be possible to re arrange sentences in target while keeping the source and target pairs consistent. I don't see that attribute in the draft. There is also the potential issues of managing to put the correct tags in the correct piece and correct order within the unit.

Regards,
Fredrik Estreen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xliff-inline@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff-inline@lists.oasis-
> open.org] On Behalf Of Yves Savourel
> Sent: den 29 maj 2012 13:59
> To: xliff-inline@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [xliff-inline] Editing operations and spliting segment
> 
> Hi Fredrik,
> 
> Thanks for the example. I understand your concern better now.
> 
> However, I wonder if we are not going too far with those processing
> expectations.
> 
> For instance: An XLIFF document may be the input for an aligner tool. It
> would break sentences and align the resulting segments. So its input may be
> like this:
> 
> <unit id='1'>
>  <segment>
>   <source>Error detected: File not found.</source>
>   <target>Erreur détectée : Fichier non trouvé.</target>  </segment>
> </unit>
> 
> And its output like this:
> 
> <unit id='1'>
>  <segment>
>   <source>Error detected: </source>
>   <target>Erreur détectée : </target>
>  </segment>
>  <segment>
>   <source>File not found.</source>
>   <target>Fichier non trouvé.</target>
>  </segment>
> </unit>
> 
> The input would have an existing target and it would be perfectly reasonable
> to re-segments and align the content. As long as the operations are
> controlled the results should be valid.
> 
> In other words, doing anything to the target can make that target a mismatch
> for the source. Re-segmenting an existing target is no more dangerous that
> other operations.
> 
> Also: <target> has an order attribute that can be used to modify the order in
> which the target segments need to be re-constructed. So even the example
> you gave could probably be handled properly.
> 
> Cheers,
> -ys
> 
> 
> 
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