Re: [Po4a-devel] Xhtml module: Integrated comments and strange whitespace
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 07:00:45PM +0300, kaloian(a)doganov.org wrote:
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois(a)centraliens.net> writes:
But the concatenation of comments is a real issue. It is useful to
have a construct that is guaranteed not to be modified by the
processing tool (po4a). In Html module, comments were such
constructs. We used them in a preprocessing phase to leave marks and
placeholders in the original document that have special meaning to our
postprocessing tools. The workflow is (very roughly):
Process an article
------------------
1. Preprocess the original article
2. Run po4a on the preprocessed article to get localized one
3. Postprocess the localized article
For instance, in the first phase we comment out some portions of the
document that must not be made translatable. Here is one real
example:
[...]
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
<!-- $Date: 2007/06/19 00:02:58 $ -->
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
OK. I see how you use it.
One option could be to use another trick:
<p>
Updated:
<timestamp date="$Date: 2007/06/19 00:02:58 $">
</p>
This could be generated by the preprocessor, and the timestamp could be
restored afterward by the postprocessor.
I can try to add an option to handle comments differently:
* drop comments inside a line
(foo bar<!-- comment> baz qux)
* keep the comments for lines which only contain comments (and spaces)
* Use this commented lines as paragraph separators.
* keep the comments gathered since the last paragraph to display them in
the PO (but print them as is in the generated document)
(If we want to output the comments in place where they were found,
paragraphs like:
foo bar
<!-- comment -->
baz qux
will have to be translated as two different paragraphs.)
I will work on it after the 0.32 release.
Best Regards,
--
Nekral