Re: [Po4a-devel] [RFC] [Docbook] Add 'translator-credits' support

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:29:07AM +0800, dongsheng.song(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > As a competition, I suggest po4a add 'translator-credits' support. > > po4a-updatepo will generate 'translator-credits': > >     #: ../source/book.xml:0 >     msgid "translator-credits" >     msgstr "" >     "alice <alice(a)example.com&gt;, 2005-2008\n" >     "bob <bob(a)example.com&gt;, 2005,2008" > > if the source xml have info (bookinfo|articleinfo|info) element, > po4a-translate will > add 'othercredit' and 'copyright' like this: > >     <othercredit class="translator"> >       <firstname>alice</firstname> >       <email&gt;alice(a)example.com&lt;/email&gt; >     </othercredit> >     <othercredit class="translator"> >       <firstname>bob</firstname> >       <email&gt;bob(a)example.com&lt;/email&gt; >     </othercredit> > >     <copyright> >       <year>2005</year> >       <year>2006</year> >       <year>2007</year> >       <year>2008</year> >       <holder>alice <alice(a)example.com&gt;&lt;/holder&gt; >     </copyright> I would prefer that the translator string contains the information and the formating tags. Otherwise, I will have to parse and support too many things. (what is a year, a firstname, a surname, a company, etc.)

Then I would prefer to have it as an option since it is not always wanted and might be fragile (there might be an <info> tag that does not refer to the document. Also, only the first <info> should receive this extra information. Otherwise, it looks feasible. But requires changes in the Xml module and in the Docbook module. This will have to be configurable from the Xml module point of view because different format may want to use this for different tags. Also for Docbook, multiple tags will require this to support different versions of Docbook (looking at the history, the <*info> tags have never been really stable)