[Po4a-devel] Putting multiple translations in an XML document
So I'm still with my XML file I'd like to translate and I have another
issue with it, which is quite independent.
The thing is I'd like to have all the translations in one file so I can
then ship just this one file and the application using the file would
then pick the right locale.
So starting from my test file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<root>
<global>
<name>To be translated</name>
<other>foo</other>
<yetother>bar</yetother>
</global>
</root>
I would like to get:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<root>
<global>
<name>To be translated</name>
<name lang="fr">A traduire</name>
<name lang="de">de--To be translated--de</name>
<other>foo</other>
<yetother>bar</yetother>
</global>
</root>
That does not seem to be doable with the standard XML module or any
other. I guess that means I should code my own. I'm a bit worried the
infrastructure is not geared towards that kind of use though. For
instance po4a-translate does not expect to be given multiple po files.
Is there some code that does something similar and that I could use as a
model?
The only other similar case I can think of is the .desktop files, but as
far as I can tell they are not supported by po4a and are not XML either.
This new module could probably be made pretty general: take a tag and
duplicate it, adding a lang attribute with the proper value. Ideally one
would use a copy of the file with no translation at all as the source to
avoid confusion. I don't know if anyone else would be interested in such
a module though.
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