Re: xml2po

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Hi Matthew,

Today at 10:38, Matthew East wrote:

> ok I have another question, since you've been so helpful! Do you guys at
> gnome-doc-utils have a tool to do html -> pot? We have a strict xhtml
> file that we need to get into pot. Any ideas?

Well, xml2po is designed to handle any XML format :)  It's just that
it by default makes use of DocBook mode.  For anything else for what
there is no special mode, you should try "-a" (automatic detection). 

It should work fine for XHTML, except for two things: 
1. attribute values are not translatable (eg. <img> alt or title
   attributes might need translation).  This has been sitting on my TODO
   list for a while already, and it shouldn't be too hard to implement
   (actually, it should be pretty straight-forward :), but we simply
   didn't have enough need for it so far.
2. <pre> is not going to be treated as space-preserving, i.e. spaces
   are going to be collapsed: this is easily fixed by creating
   separate "xhtml" mode which would return all "space-preserving"
   tags.  Implementing 2 is even simpler than 1, and instead of "-a",
   you'd use "-m xhtml" then. :)

Just be sure to pass on "-a" when merging back as well.

Cheers,
Danilo