Re: xml errors in documentation

[F Wolff <friedel translate org za>]

Op Wo, 2010-10-20 om 22:09 +0200 skryf Ask Hjorth Larsen:
> Hi Andre and Claude
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> wrote:
> > Le mercredi 20 octobre 2010 à 02:23 +0200, Andre Klapper a écrit :
> >> Am Mittwoch, den 20.10.2010, 00:36 +0200 schrieb Ask Hjorth Larsen:
> >> > This is a breakdown of every xml error in every translated
> >> > documentation string in GNOME
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot. Fixed for cs.
> >
> > Fixed for fr also.
> >
> >> > The xml checks were performed with the utility gtxml from pyg3t  (in
> >> > case you want to run your own xml checks subsequently):
> >> >   https://launchpad.net/pyg3t
> >>
> >> Naive idea: Could something similar could run on l10n.gnome.org and
> >> display an error on the website (or already when uploading it)?
> >
> > Talking of QA tool integration, I'd prefer beginning with
> > translate-toolkit [1].
> > Can you tell us how this project is different from it and why they
> > couldn't be merged?
> >
> > Claude
> 
> It definitely has a lot in common with the translate toolkit.  But
> also some differences.  The present xml tool was written specifically
> because we wanted to weed out xml errors in the gnome docs without too
> many false positives.  The xml check of the translate toolkit will
> write more complaints, but is also more likely to get false positives.
>  If we want to run something like this on damned lies, I think it
> should only complain about real errors.
> 
> Some of the pyg3t scripts are bit specialized to the kind of stuff we
> (Danish translation team) do, and tend to be less general than the
> translate-toolkit.  It's the question of how one would want to combine
> utilities that do close to the same thing.  Does anyone here work on
> translate toolkit?

Yes. I am one of the developers for the project.

Keep well
Friedel


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