Re: Some questions about xml-i18n-tools

[Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt>]

On 21 May 2001 21:48:26 +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
>   <ETableColumn model_col=\"4\" _title=\"Device\" expansion=\"1.0\"
> minimum_width=\"10\" resizable=\"true\" cell=\"string\"
> compare=\"string\"/> \
> </ETableSpecification>";
> 
> </example>
> 
> As you can see it's XML code inside a .c file, so It will never be
> extracted to be translated.
> 
> Ideas?
> It's possible to modify xml-i18n-tools to handle those special things?
In evolution it is done by providing a copy of those strings in dummy define:
#ifdef JUST_FOR_TRANSLATORS
static char *strings[] = (
	N_("Device"),
	N_("Mount point"),
	N_("Size")
);
#endif
so xgettext finds them and puts in .pot file. But when programmers change xml spec, they also need to update these copies.

The same thing is done, when a translatable string appears inside #define, where xgettext does not find them. Well, this example also was
#define SPEC "<?xml version=........."
but more complicated.

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Gediminas Paulauskas
Kaunas, Lithuania