RE: [xliff] Seg-source and source differences

["Lieske, Christian" <christian.lieske@sap.com>]

Hi Yves, Rodolfo, all,

Aren't we looking at at least three different questions?

1. Is the example correct?

2. Are segmentation processes allowed to apply something that could be
termed "normalization"? 

Example: In XML elements, multiple whitespaces get collapsed to a single
one.

3. Which "guidance" should be given to users or systems with respect to
the existence of
"seg-source"?

Sample "guidance":

Check if "seg-source(s)" and "source" are identical.
	a. if "no", do ...
	b. if "yes", do ...

I am tempted to say that we could consider separate "answers" for the
individual questions.
The simplest one - pertaining to 1.: We correct the example.

Cheers,
Christian

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodolfo M. Raya [mailto:rmraya@maxprograms.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:11 PM
To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [xliff] Seg-source and source differences

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 15:56:31 -0700
Yves Savourel <ysavourel@translate.com> wrote:

> Looking at some example available for 1.2:
>
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/v1.2/cs02/Sample_AlmostEverything_1.2_s
trict.xlf
> 
> I've noticed that we don't have much information about how to deal
> with pre-segmented text units. For example, the document above
> contains the following:
 
-----8<-----
 
> Here the text content of <source> and the one of <seg-source> is
> actually different, even after normalizing whitespaces you would have
> one space difference.
> 
> What the user should do when there is a discrepancy between both
> content? Maybe we need more processing descriptions in 2.0?

Hi,

I'm not sure whether that's a bug in the example or a feature of XLIFF
1.2's new segmentation model. I know people that considered this a
feature and implemented segmentation removing spaces between segments.

In any case, this should be either corrected for XLIFF 2.0 or clearly
explained in the specification document.

Best regards,
Rodolfo
-- 
Rodolfo M. Raya <rmraya@maxprograms.com>
http://www.maxprograms.com

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