[Po4a-devel]New solution to translate XML using po files

Hello, I just discovered that the gnome guys did come out with their own solution to convert xml files from and to po files. Of course, they couldn't use the KDE one "poxml", neither one of the existing "translate" and "po4a". Erm. Enough grumbling. It's called xml2po, it's included as a sub-directory of the gnome-doc-utils debian package. It's python based (grumble grumble). From what I can see, the entities are rewritten before the content is extracted to po files. This is bad because it will unnecessary fuzzy the strings when the entity content change. In po4a/sgml, entities are translated separately, and then the entities are preserved into msgids. I'm not sure about po4a/xml. The most interesting point is that they provide an heuristic for automatic tags classification. Maybe from dtd, I only glanced the code. But at the same time, they provide specific "modes" for the dtd they use (docbook and gnomesummary). If it works, it's exactly what I'm dreaming of since years. I think that it could be interesting to : - see whether we can reuse their automatic classification heuristic - build a gnomesummary module from their one (it looks really easy to do) - contact the authors to see whether they would accept to merge our efforts since it's also python based, we may well get the same result than with the translate project (both parts willing to merge, none willing to switch the programming language, and no change as result), but it worth trying... Your advice? Bye, Mt. PS: I dream of Perl6, which will make possible the code sharing between perl, python and even java ;)