The pattern covers the cases where an xsd:element is embedded into an xsd:sequence, which is in its turn embedded by an xsd:element.

• The graphical representation only illustrates the XSD case.
• The DTD case is exemplified by the Translation Memory eXchange standard (TMX) (http://www.lisa.org/Translation-Memory-e.34.0.html). TMX is the vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of Translation Memory data created by Computer Aided Translation and localization tools. The purpose of TMX is to allow easier exchange of translation memory data between tools and/or translation vendors with little or no loss of critical data during the process. In existence since 1998, TMX is a certifiable standard format. TMX is developed and maintained by OSCAR (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use), a LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association) Special Interest Group.

The following structure from TMX illustrates the same pattern conversion

  <!ELEMENT tu     (tuv+) >

This describes that a translation unit (tu) consists of one or more translation unit variants (tuv). A translationUnit contains the data for a given translation unit. A TranslationUnitVariant specifies text in a given language

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• The creation of embedding class and embedded class(es)
• The creation of an instance of the hasPart object property from the DOLCE Ultra Light ontology (http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl) with embedding class as domain and embedded class(es) as range.

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The purpose of the OASIS XLIFF standard (http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/v1.2/os/xliff-core.html) is to define and promote, through extensible XML vocabularies, the adoption of a specification for the interchange of localizable software and document based objects and related metadata. XLIFF should be able to mark-up and capture localization information and interoperate with different processes and phases without loss of information. It should fulfill specific requirements of being tool-neutral. It should support the localization related aspects of internationalization and entire localization process. It also needs to support common software and content data formats. This should also provide an extensibility mechanism to allow the development of tools compatible with an implementer’s proprietary data formats and workflow requirements.

• 1. TransUnit: contains (a set of) translational equivalences
• 2. Source: the source of the translation pair
• 3. SegSource: the translatable text, divided into segments
• 4. Mrk: Each segment is marked by means of the <Mrk> element with attribute “mType” set to the value "seg".
• 5. Target: the target of the translation pair
• 6. Alt-Trans: possible translations as Target instances
• 7. Equiv-trans: Indicates if the target language translation is a direct equivalent of the source text.

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