Hi Yves,
Nice to hear form you again.
/* I am cc'ing the XLIFF list because your request kind of dove-tails into an action item on our wiki. I am signed up to (finally) update my xliffRoundTrip tool to do a number of things (like work with XLIFF 1.2, toggle between creating minimalist or maximalist XLIFF, handle namespaces more robustly, etc.). My hope is that this note might coax those of us on the XLIFF TC who were interested in updates to start thinking about it again. */
Thank you for letting me know about ITS IG's work on the 'ITS decorated XML document' scripts. This looks really cool. And thank you for letting me know about your vision for a downstream application that takes decorated files and runs them through an XLIFF roundtrip cycle (did I get that right?).
As for your question about whether I could adapt my xliffRoundTrip Tool to fill that role:
> We were wondering about the possibilities
> about having some "be sensitive against
> ITS decorations" switch in your XLIFF
> roundtripping tool to work from such document?
Answer: Absolutely!
I began to answer this by saying the pending improvements for the new version of xliffRoundTrip Tool would automatically do the trick (i.e., namespace handling, XLIFF 1.2 upgrade). But I see that an actual ITS switch would be required (i.e., don't treat the