From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (karl@huftis.org)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 12:05:04 EDT
Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote in news:36C308EC-CFFE-
11D6-80C8-0003934B5C22@appligent.com:
> It should look
> something like this instead:
>
> <barbarism word="tamany">
> <suggestion word="mida" />
> <suggestion word="grandària" />
> <suggestion ... />
> </barbarism>
I suggest moving the original word to elements too (generally,
in XML it's a good idea to never use attributes for normal text --
only for codes and similar things). Also, it should be possible to
have several original words (with the same meaning), but with the
same suggestion. Norwegian example:
<barbarism>
<original>
<word>e-mail</word>
<word>email</word>
<word>mail</word>
</original>
<suggestions>
<word>e-post</word>
<word>e-brev</word>
</suggestions>
</barbarism>
This is much more compact than having equal entries for each
original word ('e-mail', 'email', 'e-mail').
One more thing. This only works on individual words. Would it be
possible to support leading and trailing words/articles? For
example, in Norwegian, 'ein e-mail' should be changed to either
'ein e-post' or 'eit e-brev' (note 'eit', not 'ein' for 'e-brev').
Other languages use similar articles (e.g. 'la' and 'le' in
French).
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer
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