Advice on HTML anchor tag in XLIFF (RE: XLIFF Spec Question)

Hi Richard,

I will forward this to the XLIFF TC to make them aware of your question. Another resource you might think about for this and similar problems is the XLIFF users' list. Instructions for how to access the list are here: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xliff#feedback

Meanwhile I will see pass any guidance from the TC to you.

Thanks,

Bryan

From: Richard Sloggett [mailto:Richard.Sloggett@innovasys.com]
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 11:53 AM
To: Schnabel, Bryan S
Subject: XLIFF Spec Question

Hello,

Sorry to bother you (got your email from the XLIFF pages), but I wonder if you could point me in the direction of someone who could answer a clarification question on the XLIFF spec (1.2) for me. We’ve implemented support for XLIFF in our help authoring tool but we are a little unclear about how to handle Html anchor tags – we’re currently generating something like this:

<ph id=”idvalue” ctype="x-html-a" xhtml:href=""http://www.innovasys.com/" " xhtml:target="_blank">Anchor Caption<sub ctype="x-a-title">Anchor Title</sub></ph>

.. but we’re unsure if we can mix text for translation (“Anchor Caption”) with the <sub> tag for the title. The text appears to be ok in a <g>, but the spec advises to use a <ph> for tags with translatable attributes.

I’d be really grateful if you could help this email along to someone who might be able to advise.

Richard Sloggett

Innovasys

http://www.innovasys.com

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