Re: About translating documents (.xml/.sgml) in GNOME

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky nenya ms mff cuni cz>]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bernd Groh wrote:

> IMO, if a document is anticipated to undergo quite a few such changes, 
> then I don't think PO-files are a good option. I'd rather convert the 
> whole thing into something that gives me something a little more 
> WYSIWYG. PO-files I believe is a good option for translations, where the 
> structure of the document remains the same within the translation process.

My experience translating KDE docs using PO files:

It's a very rare case in KDE that a document undergoes huge changes. 
Typical changes are typos, cleanups, clarification, markup fixes and
adding new text. I never felt like I've lost my work done on previous 
version of the document.

Stanislav