Preserve Space / Language Info at the inline level

[Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>]

Hi David, all,

Looking at:
http://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/xliff/trunk/xliff-21/xliff-core-v2.1.pdf

Section "5.9.4.1 ITS Preserve Space Annotation"

I'm not sure if this is the best way to define the annotation for Preserve Space, and I assume, Language Information later.

There are two options:

a) We have two attributes itsm:space and itsm:lang that can be set in any <mrk>/<sm> element, regardless of the type (just like
translate).

In that case we get this type of annotations:

<mrk id='m1' translate='no' itsm:space='preserve' itsm:space='zxx'>3x + 5y = 2</mrk>

<mrk id='m2' type='term' itsm:lang='fr-CA'>poutine</mrk>

<mrk id='m3' type='itsm:any' itsm:space='preserve'>[  ]=2s</mrk>

Etc.


Or b) we decide to force a specific annotation for Preserve Space and for Language Information that are not mixed with others.

In that second case, the simplest way to define them would be:

<mrk id='1' type='itsm:space value='preserve'>...</mrk>

<mrk id='2' type='itsm:lang' value='fr-CA'>...</mrk>


Also, it seems to me that it would be a lot more clear for the reader to have just one ITS Module section (no appendix) and have
each data category defined there, regardless how they are mapped.

Cheers,
-yves