Re: Mallard and xml2po

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 13:55 +0200, Milo Casagrande wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2009/7/28 Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>:
> >
> >
> > I just filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589965 with a
> > patch; hopefully a Damned Lies developer will soon check this.
> 
> Thanks Frederic!
> 
> During lunch break I tested xml2po converting only to PO, not the way
> back, on Empathy doc.
> 
> One thing I noticed so far: the "comments" (<comment> ... </comment>)
> tags get extracted too. Do we want that?
> 
> Translators will see sometimes non-sense (for the document
> translation) text and those comments are supposed to be read in
> editing and review mode only.
> 
> Would it be possible to skip those tags?

I think that's a fine idea.  Adding comment to xml2po's
"ignore tags" didn't seem to do the trick though.  I've
had some other places where xml2po didn't quite do what
I thought it would do with the Mallard mode.

If we have a "do not translate" feature, it would be
nice if it supported the its:translate attribute:

http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/mallard/its.html#R012

After working on Mallard support in xml2po, I think we
someone needs to sit down and really refactor xml2po to
handle this and some of the other ITS stuff.  I already
had to make some small changes to xml2po itself to get
the Mallard mode working.

Danilo, I know you'll read this thread eventually.  Can
you chime in with your thoughts?

--
Shaun