[Po4a-devel] po4a beginner questions

Hi! I am currently evaluating po4a and I stumbled into some observations, which someone here can possibly explain. I am running 0.28 on FreeBSD 1. Whatever po4a command I try, I always get 2 warnings, example: #/usr/local/bin/po4a-gettextize -f sgml -m ./testproj.xml -p ./testproj.pot Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Locale/Po4a/Sgml.pm line 668. po4a::sgml: Warning: nsgmls is missing or non-functional. Please make sure that nsgmls is present and does not produce any error (with the -wno-valid option), and report a bug otherwise. Continuing... 2. My test files is a samll docbook test. I have attached it but I do not know if the mailing list supports attachments. It consists of 2 .xml files: testproj.xml which is including test_chapter.xml. If I look at the result .pot File, I see: # type: <imageobject></imageobject> #: ./testproj.xml:41 msgid "<imagedata format=\"PNG\" fileref=\"apicture.png\">>" msgstr "" The first question here is, why this should be translated. The second, more important is, why this ends with a double "larger than". The source code was: <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="apicture.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject></mediaobject> 3. Looking into the same line I notice, that the line number #: ./testproj.xml:41 is also wrong. It should be #: ./testproj.xml:45 ./test_chapter.xml:6 as this fragment was from test_chapter.xml 4. If I now translate, lets say # type: <author></author> #: testproj.xml:14 msgid "<firstname>J.T.</firstname> <surname>Kirk</surname>" msgstr "<firstname>J.T.</firstname> <surname Kirk</surname>" (note the missing greater than after surname), po4a-translate creates an invalid xml file. This is off cource not po4a's fault, but the question here is, if po4a could not make an xml validity check on each translated item and print a warning, pointing to the wrongly translated string Thanks for reading this Heiner