Re: [Po4a-devel] XML: prevent some attributes from being translated
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:07:07PM +0100, poy(a)123gen.com wrote:
>> 3) the caption of the link is cut out of its context; i would
love the
>> following:
>> msgid "abc <placeholder0>click here</placeholder0> def"
>> msgstr ""
>
> I cannot do this in po4a.
> This would require a standard to put links in PO files.
oh this is not what i meant... i don't want the ability to jump between
one translation and another inside a PO file, not at all.
i meant to show an example of a text which would be hard to translate if
it were cut out of its context, ie the fact that the text englobed in the
placeholder isn't inlined within the rest of the message.
a better example:
Welcome to our project. Make sure you download it from the <a
href="alioth.debian.../po4a">official site</a>!
that would result in these 2 separate translations:
Yes, it might be a drawback of placeholders.
But it will highly depend on which tags are added to the placeholder
category. Currently, Xhtml has none.
You can have a look at Docbook.pm, where I added more placeholders (e.g.
<address>, <cmdsynopsis>, many <*info>, <example>, <figure>,
<footnote>,
<funcprototype>, ...)
If useful, I could also provide an option to indicate that placeholders
should be changed to inline if they have less than XXX characters.
Currently, I don't think it is necessary. Placeholders should be used when
the block is context free enough so that translation can be reused.
Best Regards,
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Nekral