Re: doc-i18n-tool

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> writes:

> [ seems it's time I subscribe to gnome-i18n, done, Daniel ]
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:06:36PM -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > Damien Donlon - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Solaris Software - Software Engineer <Damien Donlon Sun COM> writes:
> > > So, we can use this to generate a DocBook XML file
> > > from an existing DocBook SGML file by doing :
> > > 
> > > DocBook SGML -> .pot -> DocBook XML ?
> > 
> > DocBook SGML -> .pot
> > DocBook SGML + .pot -> Translated DocBook SGML
> > 
> > The actual format/structure of the document doesn't change.
> 
>   Well actually saving the xmlDocTree produced from parsing
> the SGML is far more likely to look like XML in the end than
> SGML. I would actually prefer that personally !

We'd need to spit it out with a different DTD though, right?  Can you
change the DtD on an xmlDocTree??

> > > Also, do you happen to know whether the move to DocBook XML 
> > > is *absolutely* definite now for Gnome 2.0? Is there a schedule 
> > > for the changover i.e for when XML format docs have to go into 
> > > the CVS tree based on the most recent Gnome 2.0 schedule?
> > 
> > This is up to the doc guys.  Any comments?
> 
>   Yep it's pretty sure. The fact that libxml2 was hacked to add read
> capacity for DocBook SGML is one of the obvious reasons.

Sounds good.  It needs to actually happen though. (-:

-Jonathan