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Subject: Merge New Translation Request
Hello, I am joining the mailing list of TC from IBM. I would like to solve one of our problems by introducing XLIFF... In our process, translators sometimes receive updated source text (second shipment) before completing the translation of the previous source (first shipment). The translator requires some manual process to merge the translation for the updated request. It is done by extracting memory from first shipment and apply the extracted memory (not-reviewed-yet because it is a middle of translation) along with the older (reviewed-quality) memory to the second shipment. After applying these memories, we cannot distinguish the segment which has not-reviewed-yet from the segment which has reviewed-quality translation. Above is one of the problem we have in supporting the updated translation we call it as multiple shipments. Does XLIFF can work with the multiple shipments? I think XLIFF can store translation state as an attribute of <target> element such as "needs-review-translation." If we extract this information into a memory and apply to second shipment, we can store the same state at <target> or state-qualifier of <alt-trans>. We might be able to distinguish the segment which include not-reviewed-yet translation from reviewed ones in a XLIFF editor. Are there any other ways to merge translations in XLIFF? Thank you and Best Regards, Eiju Akahane, Yamato Software Lab., Software Group, IBM
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