Hi Julien,

julien (Freitag, 5. September 2008, 20:48):

I ran
xml2po-support> python tools/split-xml-multi-lang.py --debug -l fr -f oldsrc/menus/file-new.xml -d DEST

I got two directories, 'en' and 'fr' with file-new.xml in both. OK

I noticed in the 'fr' file: - in and , all language attributes are shown (lang=en;de;es...) even though there are fr para only.

Yes, 'xml2po' won't care about the "lang" attribute, so I didn't remove or replace them. And they may be useful for finding bugs:

English text

may be ok in a French XML file, but e.g.

English text

would obviously indicate a serious bug in our script.

- The tip is in english because it is not translated to 'fr'.

Yes, that's intended. We need two XML files of the very same structure to use xml2po's "reuse" option. Try

xml2po --output=french.po --reuse=french.xml --language=fr english.xml

xml2po should replace any "translation" which is the same as the English source string with an empty string. (Check this!)

- In the grayscale section, there are 4 'en' para and 2 'fr' para in the source. In the destination 'fr' file, "missing" para are in english.

Hey, nobody is perfect. ;-)
What should the script do? Are the the missing 'fr' (and 'de') paras intentionally not translated? The 'en' paras may be added just yesterday, how can the script know?

But maybe it's a good idea to detect these cases and emit a warning.

What is the use of the 'seqnum=' added?

They are internally used to mark a node as "seen". The current script version has been changed to remove these attributes when constructing the destination document.

Ulf

Ulf-D. Ehlert (Samstag, 6. September 2008, 21:08):

English text

would obviously indicate a serious bug in our script.

s/de;fr/de/

Ulf

Hi Julien,

julien (Montag, 8. September 2008, 08:24):

After updating xml2po-support, I ran: xml2po-support/DEST> xml2po --output=file-new.po --reuse fr/file-new.xml --language=fr en/file-new.xml

Thanks for testing it. :-)

The file-new.po I got is wrong :-(. It is correct up to line 33, "Basic options".

From there, all msgstr are shifted:

Yes, I can reproduce it.
My "file-new.po" contains the following output:

#: .../en/file-new.xml:33(phrase) .../en/file-new.xml:41(phrase) msgid "The dialog"
msgstr "Modèle"

Looking at the relevant lines of "en/file-new.xml" I find

33: ... The New Image dialog 42: ... The Template dialog

It seems that "xml2po" can't handle these lines when "reusing" an XML file even when original XML file and reused XML file both have the same structure.

However, I'm using my own patched version of "xml2po" - see

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545478

for the bugreport and

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=115553&action=view

for the patch.

Using the patched version of "xml2po" the output is usable. Some messages are not translated, but that's ok.

Apparently we can't rely on the default gnome-doc-utils package, looks like we have to provide a patched version of "xml2po". Hmm, maybe that's not so bad, then we could apply more patches, e.g. producing a useful header for our po files.

Ulf