Re: Keywords in desktop files

[Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com>]

Hi

2013/1/23 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
> On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 14:04 +0100, Daniel Mustieles García wrote:
>> Another check that should be implemented is the XML syntax check done
>> in gtxml [1]. It checks the documentation PO files syntax, and is
>> really useful to avoid errors in malfomed or wrong tags in doc files.
>>
>> [1] https://launchpad.net/pyg3t
>
> How does gtxml determine which strings have XML in them? Last April,
> I asked on the gettext mailing list about adding a flag to identify
> XML content, but got no response.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2012-04/msg00013.html
>
> --
> Shaun

Presently it's a very simple heuristic.  It checks whether the English
message looks like XML, by looking for the character '<' and checking
if it is valid XML.  If the English message fulfills those criteria
and the translation isn't valid XML, then a warning is printed.

Best regards
Ask