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Subject: RE: [xliff] <bin-unit> problem
In our discusion about <bin-unit>, which started with my proposal to
add coord to <bin-unit> and was expanded by Bryan and Yves, it struck me
that having a way to reference a <bin-unit> from a <trans-unit>
would solve our problem. At first I thought we could do this by adding
a bin-ref attribute to <x/> that takes the <bin-unit> id value as
its value.
Using the following example:
<p>Click <img src="javascript:void(0);" alt="Start!" width="35"
height="16"/> to start.</p>
We can store the width and height attributes in the coord of the
<trans-unit> and move the image to a <bin-unit> that we'll
reference:
<trans-unit id="11"
coord="#;#;35;16">
<source>Click <ph id='1'><img src="javascript:void(0);"image/gif" bin-ref="12"/></sub>" alt="<sub>Start!</sub>" /></ph> to start.</source> <target></target> </trans-unit> <bin-unit id="12" mime-type="image/gif" reformat="yes"> <bin-source><external-file href="start.gif" /></bin-source> </bin-unit>
This didn't work out so well for a few reasons:
1. coord in the <trans-unit id="11"> implies the entire text must fit
in those coords, not just the image.
2. We still have to use a <sub> element for the image because an
<x> cannot occur in a <ph>.
3. We have a reference id attribute, rid, used in the paired inline
tags which is very similar to this bin-ref.
4. There is a <sub> for the alt text; thus, a segment within a
segment.
Another way to handle this is to pull the entire <img> from the
source. We do this by replacing bin-ref with rid in <x>.
<trans-unit id="11">
<source>Click <x ctype="image" rid="12"/> to start.</source> <target></target> </trans-unit> <trans-unit id="12" coord="#;#;35;16"> <source><ph id='1'><img src="javascript:void(0);"image/gif" rid="13"/></sub>" alt="<sub>Start!</sub>" /></ph></source> <target></target> </trans-unit> <bin-unit id="13" mime-type="image/gif" reformat="yes"> <bin-source><external-file href="start.gif" /></bin-source> </bin-unit> <trans-unit id="11">
<source>Click <x ctype="image" rid="12"/> to start.</source> <target></target> </trans-unit> <trans-unit id="12" coord="#;#;35;16"> <source><ph id='1'><img src="javascript:void(0);"image/gif" rid="13"/>" alt="<sub>Start!</sub>" /></ph></source> <target></target> </trans-unit> <bin-unit id="13" mime-type="image/gif" reformat="yes"> <bin-source><external-file href="start.gif" /></bin-source> </bin-unit> This could be pushed even farther by removing the alt segment with the same
technique.
<trans-unit id="11">
<source>Click <x ctype="image" rid="12"/> to start.</source> <target></target> </trans-unit> <trans-unit id="12" coord="#;#;35;16"> <source><ph id='1'><img src="javascript:void(0);"image/gif" rid="13"/>" alt="<sub rid="14"/>" /></ph></source> <target></target> </trans-unit> <bin-unit id="13" mime-type="image/gif" reformat="yes"> <bin-source><external-file href="start.gif" /></bin-source> </bin-unit>
<trans-unit id="14" > <source>Start!</source> <target></target> </trans-unit> This is just thinking out loud. What do you think?
cheers,
john |
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