[xliff-tools] PO Repr. Guide: restype attribute for PO Header

[Rodolfo M. Raya]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:56 +1000, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:

Hi,



> Please speak up if you're against changing the guide to use a similar approach 
> to the the one described below, as if not I will update the guide to reflect 
> these changes over the weekend.


I'm not against your approach, but I think it is also not totally
correct. If you want to put something in the <source> element, it must
be the content of the header present in the POT file. That's the real
source. 

Having the original header in the source will introduce garbage in TM
systems. When <source> is empty and <target> has text, there is data for
only one language and TM systems discard the entry. But if there is an
old version of the header in <source> and a newer version in the
<target> then there will be data for two languages and garbage will be
stored. I say garbage because source language would normally be set to
en-US, while <source> data corresponds to something else.

I can modify the reference implementation to match this new approach
easily, but please define it tomorrow at the latest. 

We, at Heartsome, are planning to release a new version of our tools on
Sunday. This means that we are almost in code freeze now. I want to
include the new PO converter in this release and I would like this
version to be compliant with Representation Guide.

Regards,
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo M. Raya <rodolfo at heartsome.net>
Heartsome Holdings Pte Ltd
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