Re: [Po4a-devel] po4a beginner questions
On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:24, Nicolas François wrote:
> The first question here is, why this should be translated.
Some people wants to also translate images (e.g. screen shots).
In French, this could be translated in:
msgstr "<imagedata format=\"PNG\"
fileref=\"apicture-fr.png\">>"
Good point.
> 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>
Not in the source you sent:
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="apicture.png" format="png">>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
Definitely not. If I download
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/po4a-devel/attachments/20061008/...
I get:
7of9# hd test_chapter.bin
...
00000110 6a 65 63 74 3e 3c 69 6d 61 67 65 64 61 74 61 20 |ject><imagedata |
00000120 66 69 6c 65 72 65 66 3d 22 61 70 69 63 74 75 72 |fileref="apictur|
00000130 65 2e 70 6e 67 22 20 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 3d 22 50 |e.png" format="P|
00000140 4e 47 22 2f 3e 0a 09 09 3c 2f 69 6d 61 67 65 6f |NG"/>...</imageo|
00000150 62 6a 65 63 74 3e 3c 2f 6d 65 64 69 61 6f 62 6a |bject></mediaobj|
Its definetely /> at the end of the imagedata tag. Otherwise it would be
invalid xml. If I do the same with the generated pot file:
00000920 31 0a 6d 73 67 69 64 20 22 3c 69 6d 61 67 65 64 |1.msgid "<imaged|
00000930 61 74 61 20 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 3d 5c 22 50 4e 47 |ata format=\"PNG|
00000940 5c 22 20 66 69 6c 65 72 65 66 3d 5c 22 61 70 69 |\" fileref=\"api|
00000950 63 74 75 72 65 2e 70 6e 67 5c 22 3e 3e 22 0a 6d
|cture.png\">>".m|
00000960 73 67 73 74 72 20 22 22 0a 0a 23 20 74 79 70 65 |sgstr ""..# type|
00000970 3a 20 3c 2f 6d 65 64 69 61 6f 62 6a 65 63 74 3e |: </mediaobject>|
There was definiately an /> converted into a >> !
> 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
When I run po4a with the file you sent, the line references I get are:
#: testproj.xml:45 test_chapter.xml:4
(So it needs a little fix, the string is really on line 6).
Can you check again. Maybe it's a difference in the dependencies of po4a
(I'm thinking about nsgmls), which behaves in a different way on FreeBSD.
Not sure what to check here. I did run
/usr/local/bin/po4a-gettextize -f sgml -m ./testproj.xml -p ./testproj.pot
again but with the same result. Most entries from test_chapter.xml were listed
as
#: ./testproj.xml:41
Some from the end of test_chapter.xml as
#: ./testproj.xml:45 ./test_chapter.xml:11
to
#: ./testproj.xml:45 ./test_chapter.xml:30
I have appended my .pot file as reference. It might help, that I am using
nsgmls from jade:
7of9# pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/nsgmls
/usr/local/bin/nsgmls was installed by package jade-1.2.1_9
My po4a installation is not from the FreeBSD ports (it has not been updated
since 0.23) but from a patched port (where I bumped the version number).
> 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
I'm keeping it in my TODO.
However, note that doing this with po4a is quite difficult in the sgml
module. (due to sgml conditionnals, po4a is used to deal with invalid
files (tags closed twice, etc.)).
I would prefer to have an option to run an external program to check the
generated files.
Whatever you plan to do here, it should work on the .po file entry level! In
other words it should say: "your translation of ....
in ./testproj.xml:45 ./test_chapter.xml:30 is wrong, as it breaks the xml
syntax or semantic rules". It does not help if it states during
po4a-translate, that the result xml files has an unterminated <whatever> tag.
Finding the wrong translation in the .po will probably last forever!
Thanks
Heiner
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