Re: [xml] Error callback caputure and libxml2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:29:40AM +1000, Keith Isdale wrote:
> I am looking at provide i18n support for my libxslt based application, part of 
> that task involves creating a custom handler for callback functions like  
> xmlStructuredErrorFunc and reporting translated errors based on the error 
> code/text provided.
>
> It seems wasteful to me that translators could end up providng more than one 
> set of translations, one per GPL'd applicaton, when there is nearly 500 
> untranslated error message strings to be created/handled.  Is there some way 
> this can be avoided?  ie pulling all error messages into a libxml2  file and 
> providing translations from there if  host system supports POSIX locale.  If 
> provided this wouild mean that xmllint/xsltproc would have the core 
> translations it needs as well.

  I don't think libxml2 or libxslt error messages should be provided
directly to the users. I expect software to provide their own messages
and I18N layer. This also avoid to select one I18N implementation 
mechanism and dependancies on such implementation.

Daniel

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