Re: AppData proposal

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On 21 August 2013 13:47, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> If you use itstool, you don't have to mangle your input XML.

I discounted itstool as I didn't want *all* the elements translated.

> Regardless,
> you really ought to specify at what level you expect to see translatable
> elements repeated. Do you really want this:

> <description>
>   <p>Yelp is a help viewer.</p>
>   <p xml:lang="de">Yelp ist ein Hilfe-Viewer.</p>
>   <p>It's really cool.</p>
>   <p xml:lang="de">Es ist echt toll.</p>
> </description>

This, I guess, although I'm open for ideas.

> DOAP's concept of a project is pretty loose, and doesn't necessarily
> have to correspond to a tarball or a repository. There's no reason a
> package can't have one DOAP file for each application.

True

> One reason not to is that doing the kind of rich markup you have in the description element
> is a pain in RDF.

RIght, this is/was a major factor.

> I went to the AppStream wiki page but didn't see a schema. Do you have
> more info yet?

I think this might help;
http://gitorious.org/appstream/appstream-core/trees/master/docs

Thanks for any help,

Richard.