Re: [Po4a-devel] XML <? blabla ?> constructs

... The point is that the current design of the Sgml module makes it very difficult to simply ignore some parts of the document because I use an external parser. I can change them into text before launching the parser, and then turn they back to their values. That's the trick I use to protect the entities, for example. &version; is rewritten to PO4A-ampversion; before launching nsgml, and then back while generating the document/po files. But if I do so, I'm afraid that nsgml begins whining about CDATA being placed where it shouldn't. I am near the point where I decide that nsgml creates more problem than it solves. Making a ?ML parser in perl from the scratch shouldn't be that difficult after all.

The only reasons why I don't go further and reimplement my own parser is the complexity of the code. As I said recently, I don't even remember the differences between translate and indent (I guess that's a good argument to reingeenering the code ;). And there is some weird parts to support sgml specificities such as conditional compilation (ok, that would be also easier without nsgml). There is the file inclusion mecanism, also (but it should be generalized, and put in the core of po4a so that other module can use it).

Ok, the real reason is my chronical lack of time, and the fear of introducing new bugs which I would have to fix ASAP since some people begin to use po4a...

I'm gonna try masking the <?bla?> as well as CDATA to nsgml, to see if it does the trick.