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RE: [xliff] Final Consolidated Restype Attributes List

  • 1.  RE: [xliff] Final Consolidated Restype Attributes List

    Posted 03-27-2003 13:49
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    Subject: RE: [xliff] Final Consolidated Restype Attributes List


    Hi all,
     
    It might make sense to say a word again about my original motivation for including both
    XUL- and XSD-related items:
     
    I was assuming that we where looking for a kind of 'superset' of items to which items from specific
    sets (e.g. those belonging to Windows RC files) could be mapped. My specific line of thought was
    to create mapping tables which reveal how the individual sets would be mapped to the superset. This
    approach appealed to me since on the one hand the superset would give us a comprehensive layer of
    abstraction, and the mapping tables would leave no doubt about what representations for example
    of Windows RC items have to look like in XLIFF.
     
    The only alternative to this 'superset and mandatory mapping' approach to me would be the consequent
    use of the namespace mechanism (which for example might render Windows RC specific information
    in XLIFF as 'item="winRC:X"'). Of course this alternative approach could boil down to a completely different approach
    for tool suppliers. Possibly, they would no longer work on rendering XLIFF, but would look into XLIFF files,
    see that they are really 'wrappers' for say Windows RC files, and then would use Windows RC
    related functionality for further processing.
     
    Best,
    Christian