Re: doc-i18n-tool

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:48:47PM -0400, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 15:23, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > > >   Hum, I will let Jonathan check this one.
> 
>   And for a reason ... that's where it belongs !
> 
> > > My plan was to use xmllint for this.  In my example, I ran the doc
> > > through xmllint --noblanks before passing it to doc-i18n-tool.  I don't
> > > think doing anything else is worth doing.
> 
>   Wrong it's not the right place
> 
> > I did.  It doesn't appear to work to remove those.  The above snippit is
> > from policies.pot, generated with the command 'xmllint --noblanks
> > |doc-i18n-tool --output-pot-file policies.xml > file.pot'.  policies.xml
> > is gnome-docu/gnome-org-policies/policies.xml.  
> 
>   --noblanks removes *formatting* blanks !
> 
> <a> <b/> </a>  =>  <a><b/></a>
> <a><b> </b></a>  is not modified !

Ah -- I didn't appreciate that.

>  You need to process this at the string handling level !
> Commit this somewhere in CVS even if it need a new bogo module if nobody 
> accepts this. I cannot comment or work on code "in the air" !

I'll try to get it into intl-tools right away.

-Jonathan