Modules and extensions

[Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>]

Hi all,

 

Implementing the Glossary module for JLIFF made me wonder about how we can have a common representation of modules (and extensions).

Some implementations will not support a module like Glossary, but they still have to read JLIFF input that will have glossary entries. How can we accommodate both?

 

Maybe we need to have the namespace identifier for the module/extension with the name, so we would have:

 

             "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:glossary": [

                {

                  "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:id": "ge1",

                  "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:term": {

                    "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:text": "Term text",

                    "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:source": "Term source"

                  }

                },

                {

                  "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:term": {

                    "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:text": "hot"

                  },

                  "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:translations": [

                    {

                      "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:text": "hyt",

                      "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:glossary:2.0:source": "Google"

                    }

                  ]

                }

              ]

 

Certainly not great.

Another way could be to use the prefixes:

 

              "gls:glossary": [

                {

                  "gls:id": "ge1",

                  "gls:term": {

                    "gls:text": "Term text",

                    "gls:source": "Term source"

                  }

                },

                {

                  "gls:term": {

                    "gls:text": "hot"

                  },

                  "gls:translations": [

                    {

                      "gls:text": "hyt",

                      "gls:source": "Google"

                    }

                  ]

                }

              ]

 

With somewhere in the JLIFF input a map of the namespace identifiers and their prefixes.

It’d be better, but still not great. For example I’m not sure what the ‘:’ in the names would do in _javascript_. And I’m not sure having to lookup prefixes will be very easy.

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks,

-yves

 

Yves Savourel
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