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Subject: RE: [xliff] Source read only or modifiable?
Hi, I just realized that <mrk> should not be part of the core. It is not essential for creating an XLIFF file, translating it and generating a translated document. There could be an optional module for handling annotations. As I said before, annotations can be handled outside source or target using offsets. If offsets are not good for a given tool, the optional element used for the annotation may contain a copy of the text being annotated. Regards, Rodolfo -- From: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Yves Savourel Hi Rodolfo, If we were to make the source content “read-only” I think it would be also important to allow the addition/removing of annotations in the source (<mrk>). There are many use cases where multi-steps processes enrich the source with such metadata, and like with segmentation, it does not change the “content”. Also: would a content *not* marked with xml:space=’preserve’ be considered modified if it gets normalized? For example go from: <source>Some text and more text.</source> to: <source>Some text and more text.</source> Cheers, -yves From: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Rodolfo M. Raya Hi, I started a thread some time ago about making source read-only or not and would like to revisit the topic. In the last meeting we had some kind of agreement on considering that segmentation does not change source text. Segmentation only distributes source text in one or more segments without altering it. We also agreed that replacing span-like inline tags with equivalents in the form of start/end markers may not constitute a modification of source text as long as the replacing operation doesn’t lose data. If we consider source text as read-only in the specification, the two operations mentioned above can be declared as allowed in the relevant processing expectation section. Keeping in mind that segmentation and certain tag replacements are not to be considered modifications of source, should we consider source text read-only or should we allow modifications during the translation process? Regards, Rodolfo -- |
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