Op Wo, 2009-06-10 om 08:11 +1000 skryf Asgeir Frimannsson: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:42 AM, F Wolff <[email protected]> > wrote: > Op Ma, 2009-06-08 om 11:04 +0800 skryf Aijin Kim: > > Thank you Friedel! > > I'll try the patch once I get it and let you know the > result. > > > > Thanks, > > Aijin > > > Hallo Aijin > > Did you make any change to the file? I just looked again > through the > specifications, and it seems that our old handling of > whitespace was > actually correct all along. > > My understanding is that unless xml:space="preserve" is > specified, the > application can do what it wants (the XLIFF specification > talks about > "default white-space processing modes" of the application). In > the case > of xml:space="preserve" the application must do what we have > been doing > all along anyway. For now I think we will start to specify > xml:space="preserve" more often in the files we create, but we > will > probably not be changing our behaviour yet, unless there seems > to be > good motivation. > > Where does this file come from? My guess is that XLIFF files > should > always specify the spacing as they want it to be interpreted, > otherwise > it will be left to the application's default behaviour. > > For reference: > http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/v1.2/os/xliff-core.html#xml_space > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-white-space > > Any comments? Asgeir? > > It's a bit of a tricky subject, have a read through this for a bit of > a longer explanation: > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xliff/200802/msg00012.html > > To summarize, if translate-toolkit schema-validates the file when > opening, there should technically be an xml:space='default' on the > translation units, and whitespace should be collapsed. This was > however not the intent of the specification authors. However, if > translate toolkit doesn't validate the file against the schema, then > the xml parser should honour the xml:space attribute and not mess with > whitespace anywhere below the <file> element (unless xml:space is > overridden further down the DOM tree). > > Hope this helps, although I wish there was a simpler answer!
But does xml:space="default" necessarily mean that the whitespace should be collapsed? My understanding is that it is left up to the application (which is not great, but it seems that our default behaviour up to now of preserving the whitespace and using it literally might still be the best choice). Friedel Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/google-chrome-uses-hunspell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
