Re: A few questions about XLIFF standard

Hi Elena, 

Thank you for your questions and for choosing XLIFF. 

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Best regards, 

/chet 

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Elena Makarenko <> wrote:

Dear Mr. Ensign,

 

I am writing you on behalf of the development team which is now working on the XLIFF format processing.

 

Could you please clarify a few questions we have regarding the correct treatment of XLIFF tags?

1.      
Some declared tags have the ‘clone’ attribute which indicates whether this tag can be copied several times or not.

But what about tags without this attribute: 
<bpt>, 
<ept>, etc.? Are they ‘clonable’ by default?

2.      
It is also not clear why the 
<bx/> tag has the ‘clone’ attribute, but 
<ex/> does not have it? 

a.      
What is the purpose of this tag? Could you please provide an example which shows its usage?

b.     
Should the related 
<bx/>/<ex/> tags be within one <source> element or it is allowed to have them occur even in different <trans-unit>-s?

3.      
Could  a <target> element contain tags which are not present in the corresponding <source> element?

Here is an example (tags not present in <source> are highlighted): 

<source>The <x id="1" />formatted<x id="2" /> <bpt id="1" ctype="italic">{}</bpt>sentence<ept id="1">{}</ept> <bpt id="2" ctype="bold">{}</bpt>with<ept id="2">{}</ept> two fields.</source>

<target>The <x id="1" />formatted<x id="2" /> <bpt id="1" ctype="italic">{}</bpt>sentence<ept id="1">{}</ept> <bpt id="2" ctype="bold">{}</bpt>with<ept id="2">{}</ept> two
<bpt id="3" ctype="italic">{}</bpt> another
<ept id="3">{}</ept> <bpt id="4" ctype="bold">{}</bpt>fields
<ept id="4">{}</ept>new <x id="3" />text<x id="-1" />.</target>

If this situation is possible and is considered valid, can you please tell us whether this behavior applies for all XLIFF tags or for a subset of them only?

 

We would also like to ask you to recommend a reliable tool for XLIFF validation, if it is possible.

 

Thank you for your consideration. 

We look forward to your reply.

 

Sincerely yours,

Elena Makarenko, 

Software Developer 

Across Systems GmbH 

> Language Technology for a Globalized World 

email              

web               www.across.net

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/chet 
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