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Re: [xliff][follow-up] FW: Degrees of constraint

  • 1.  Re: [xliff][follow-up] FW: Degrees of constraint

    Posted 07-27-2004 08:22
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    Subject: Re: [xliff][follow-up] FW: Degrees of constraint


    Hi All
    
    We may be able to tackle Bryan's Second point with a new element  in XLIFF
    
    Here is the idea
    
    We do not include an extension point in the source and target directly, but
    we allow a new XLIFF element, call it <Extend> (for the sake of this
    discussion) to be a child of source and target.
    
    The Extend element contains the extension point.
    
    The Extend element can contain the state attribute
    
    So Bryans example becomes:
    
    <Target>Our guests can appease their spirit of adventure
            and <Extend state="final"><xhtml:i>itchy feet </xhtml:i></Extend>
            by exploring the various islands of our small archipelago.
    </Target>
    
    We may add extra attributes from other elements to this new element as
    required.
    
    Adding a new element means opening the spec again, but we have to do that
    anyway to include the proposed new extension points.
    
    We could of course keep the extension points in source and target, and use
    the extension point directly unless we want to override the behaviour  of
    the extension.
    
    However, The new element may have useful possibilities for "controlling"the
    content of the extension point.
    
    For example, We may specify the name space of the extension as an attribute
    of the Extend element. If this attribute is a closed list, we can constrain
    the namespaces in the document. Don't know if this is workable though
    
    Any Thoughts?
    
    Mat