Re: [xliff] Segmentation as core or not

["Dr. David Filip" <David.Filip@ul.ie>]

I Steven, I very much like the idea of log that keeps track of operations. Still in many cases we would need information on unit/segment level. But this is another story.. As Bryan, Arle, and I suggested elsewhere we should defer discussion of core/module status of particular features.  

I suggest that you record the log facility as a feature in the section 2 on the wiki.

Rgds

dF

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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 01:23, Steven R Loomis <srloomis@us.ibm.com> wrote:

Hello,
 We discussed this a little bit in IBM today.  Our view would still be that segmentation does not need to be in core for interchange.

 However, we had discussed a little bit about the idea of a logging facility which would give a list of what operations had occurred on a particular document as it processes through a workflow.  If the logging facility stored, within the document, for each such operation:
* timestamp
* type of operation ( from a namespace )
* perhaps free format text with a description of the operation

 For example,  (and please disregard specifics of the following markup, it is only given for the rough concept)

  <log>
<logEntry
timestamp="2011-11-08 01:16:07 UTC"
operation="org.oasis-open.xliff.segmentation">Segmentation was performed</logEntry>
<logEntry
timestamp="2011-12-08 01:16:07 UTC"
operation="com.example.someOtherOp.specialTranslation">Some other operation was performed</logEntry>
              ...
  </log>

* XLIFF could administer a namespace containing items such as org.oasis-open.xliff.segmentation   ( Java form, or it could be a URI such as with DTDs )
* Or, a company could use their own namespace (com.example for example).
* This way we could answer questions such as 'has segmentation occurred?' and 'where in the workflow (sequentially, according to the timestamp) did it occur?
* the operations referenced in the <log> would not need to be core or even part of the currently referenced version of xliff - as long as the namespace was maintained


Steven