RE: [xliff-omos] Content of source/target

After more tests, it definitely seems it would make implementations a lot easier to move the four fields: source-language, target-language, preserve-white-space, and target-order which are distributed in <source> and <target> in XLIFF to the segment/ignorable (sub-unit) in the object model:

· This would allow source and target to use the same interface and implementation.

· That would not prevent the XLIFF output

· The JLIFF source and target objects could be just an array of text/tags like in the current example, without any other fields.

Thoughts?

Yves Savourel
Localization Solutions Architect | t: 303.951.4523 | f: 303.516.1701 | ENLASO®

From: xliff-omos@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff-omos@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Yves Savourel
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 3:56 PM
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Subject: [xliff-omos] Content of source/target

Hi all,

Looking at https://github.com/oasis-tcs/xliff-omos-jliff/blob/master/JLIFF-schema-draft/jliff-example3-0.9.3.json

We have:

"source": [ { "text": "Quetzal" } ]

But shouldn’t that be the content set as a separate object in “source”?

Something like:

"source": {

"cnt": [

{

"text": "Quetzal"

}

]

}

The reason being that both source and target can have an xml:lang and/or an xml:space field in addition to their content.

Even if we decide that the xml:space field applies always to both and could be set on the parent sub-unit, we cannot do this for xml:lang, which is mostly set with different values. Or we would have to carry two sub-unit-level fields instead (e.g. srcLang and trgLang), which may be better.

But even in that case, target has also an order field in addition to its content.

I suppose that field could be also carried at the sub-unit level.

Cheers.

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