Re: [xliff] ITS IG ACTION-56: Do write up of processing its+xliff files

[Felix Sasaki <felix@sasakiatcf.com>]

Thanks for the feedback, Yves.

Am 12.11.2014 um 21:38 schrieb Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>:

> Hi Felix,
> 
>> to get this going I looked at the archives on what we discussed. 
>> One question I have: in the wiki we say there are three types of 
>> processors that use the information
>> 
>> . An XLIFF Extractor aware of both ITS and the ITS module for any 
>>  data coming from the original source document. 
>> . An XLIFF Modifier aware of the ITS Module for data generated 
>>  during the life time of the XLIFF document. 
>> . An XLIFF Merger aware of both the ITS Module and the ITS syntax if 
>> any of that data is merged back into the translated document. 
>> 
>> Does the information need to be written differently for these or in 
>> general?
> 
> I think it depends on each the data category:
> 
> - Always: The description of how the data category is coded in the ITS module (or mapped to other core/modules)
> 
> - The description of how to map existing annotations to XLIFF (if it's not obvious, for example: mention termInfoPoint for the value
> attribute in a term annotation).
> 
> - The description of how to map the XLIFF data into the original document (if it's not obvious, for example the ref/value use case)
> 
>> About the information itself, I think we have two aspects:
>> 
>> 1) re-writing selected ITS attributes into the oasis namespace,
>> with prefix "itsm" as a good practice.
>> 
>> 2) The handling of overlap as described in this thread
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its-ig/2014Oct/0011.html
> 
> I think this second part should have its own sub-section because a) it applies to pretty much all data categories and b) it doesn't
> concern XLIFF module processors per say: it's a 'pure-ITS' issue.
> 
> We could:
> 
> - describe the issue
> - provide the algorithm to do the transformation
> 
> - if possible provide the XSLT to do the transformation? (maybe as a separate thing)
> 
> BTW, I'm not sure following the same outline as the other modules will work well for the ITS module.
> As a user I'd like to see a single place to go get the information.
> And see it per data category (regardless how it's done: mapped, mixed, using the ITS module)

This sounds like one separate section and the data category section refer to it. I will give that separate section a try, also the conversion.

> We would probably also need a section of the item:annotarorsRef.

Makes sense, I will try to do that too. Expect a draft by the weekend.

Best,

Felix

> 
> Cheers,
> -yves
> 
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