RE: [xliff] Translation state (Y8)

["Rodolfo M. Raya" <rmraya@maxprograms.com>]

Hi Yves,

Approved and state are two different things. You may have something as approved that's good enough for a first pass but needs further review before it gets marked final.

Translation projects with four stages (translation, proofreading, review and second review) are quite common in my work area. A segment is normally marked as "approved" by the proofreader and only the reviewers set the state to "final".

Regards,
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo M. Raya       rmraya@maxprograms.com
Maxprograms       http://www.maxprograms.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf
> Of Yves Savourel
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:25 AM
> To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [xliff] Translation state (Y8)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> With regards to indicating the state of a given translation. During the face-to-
> face meeting in Redmond, the group came up with a consensus. Which was
> the following:
> 
> -1) the translation state would be moved to the <segment> element (rather
> than set in <target>)
> 
> -2) the translation state would be composed of two attributes:
> 
> - A 'state' attribute that indicates a top-level state through the following
> values: initial, translated, reviewed, and final.
> 
> A 'subState' attribute that indicates a user-defined sub-state within the
> current state. The state attribute is required to be set if subState is specified.
> The value for subState is a QName-like value: <prefix>:<value> where
> <prefix> represent the "authority" (e.g. company, standard, etc.) that
> defines the values, and <value> the value.
> 
> 
> I think there are two things we have not defined (at least there is no record
> of it):
> 
> - a) Does 'state' have a default? If yes, what is it?
> 
> (I would say, yes it should have a default, and that should probably be 'initial'.
> Or if we don't agree on a default, maybe we can just make state required?
> The idea is that we should make sure we always have a state)
> 
> 
> - b) What about the 'approved' attribute? It seems to be somewhat
> overlapping the functionality of the state and both are now in the
> <segment> element.
> 
> (I would think we drop approved as 'approved='yes' is the same as
> state='final'?)
> 
> Cheers,
> -yves
> 
> 
> 
> 
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