[xliff-tools] xml to xliff

[cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)]

On Monday 04 April 2005 09:59, Tim Foster wrote:
> > In developing filters for Docbook XML and SGML, what's interesting to
> > see is if we can at the same time find a way of leveraging all the
> > existing translations out there stored in PO Compendiums.
>
> I strongly agree! The only thing that's going to be a pain, is the
> segmentation differences that will arise from some ppl using tools that
> take XML files and create a segment/msgid out of each paragraph, vs. ours
> that create a segment/msgid our of every sentence. 
hm, I'm not at all sure that's a good idea:
the smaller the granularity of the to-be-translated bits, the harder 
non-literal translation becomes, and especially for documents that can make 
a large difference in the quality of the translation.

(for the debian-edu docs we currently use docbook<->po for translation, and 
already we've had several translators complain that granularity is to small 
in some instances)

> That could potentially 
> impact the amount of leverage you'd get from existing .po files (as
> converted from XML)

-- 
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis):
    Coördinator Belgisch Skolelinux team
    Coördinator Nederlandse Skolelinux vertaling
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