Re: [xliff-comment] Storing plural forms with XLIFF

Ok, I see now, Yves.
Thanks for enlightning me with the purpose of alt-trans up for me. :-)

Jan-Arve
 
Yves Savourel wrote:

>Hi Jan-Arve,
>
>  
>
>>Thank you for your response. Yes, I can see that 
>>they use the group method.
>>Does anybody know the rationale for them using a 
>><group restype="x-gettext-plurals"> and 
>>not <alt-trans> units?
>>    
>>
>
>I would think <alt-trans> role is different, mostly it's used to store pre-translation for a given <trans-unit>. So if you were
>using it for the PO plural forms you would have no way to store possible translation candidate.
>
>In fact, my previous example was incorrect: you probably would not get a target text in <target state='new'>, you would expect the
>source text there or nothing, and possible translation in <alt-trans>. Something like:
>
><group restype="x-gettext-plurals">
>
> <trans-unit id="1[0]" xml:space="preserve">
>  <source xml:lang='en'>%n files</source>
>  <target xml:lang='pl' state="new">%n files</target>
>  <alt-trans quality-match='100%'>
>   <target xml:lang='pl'>%n plik</target>
>  <alt-trans>  <alt-trans quality-match='100%'>
>   <target xml:lang='pl'>%n pliki</target>
>  <alt-trans>
> </trans-unit>
>
> <trans-unit id="1[1]" xml:space="preserve">
>  <source xml:lang='en'>%n files</source>
>  <target xml:lang='pl' state="new">%n files</target>
>  <alt-trans quality-match='100%'>
>   <target xml:lang='pl'>%n plik</target>
>  <alt-trans>  <alt-trans quality-match='100%'>
>   <target xml:lang='pl'>%n pliki</target>
>  <alt-trans> </trans-unit>
>
> ...Etc...
>
>Hope it helps.
>-yves
>
>  
>

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