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[xliff] Attribute value extensibility

  • 1.  [xliff] Attribute value extensibility

    Posted 09-20-2002 16:58
    Hi everyone, I was supposed to post an updated text for the section on Attribute Values Extensibility, but it seems that we are not yet out of the woods for that one. Christian and I have looked into various solutions, and asked for help and suggestions in various places, but it seems (so far) that the only way to get extension and be able to validate them is using the one already described or other similar XSD mechanisms with the same drawbacks: - difficulty to mix different user-defined sets of values. - need to alter one of the XLIFF XSDs or create a derived one. Two XSD experts have kindly suggested another methods: have a list of predefined values and allow for any other NMTOKEN values. They showed us how to defined that. This would mean (as I understand it so far) that we could use something like: <trans-unit id='1' restype='myext:MyValue'></trans-unit> But we wouldn't be able to validate that 'myext:MyValue' is valid. I'm also not sure yet wether or not values without namespace prefix but not in the list would generate errors. In short: we need to do still more tries/research. We're still waiting for some feedback, but it doesn't look too promising. If anyone has ideas... :-( -yves <<attachment: winmail.dat>>