Re: XML files containing translations

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Hi! This question maybe is better suited for the
http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-i18n-tools list, since it is
very specific to algorithms and the use of xml-i18n-tools/intltool. Or
maybe I misunderstood the question?


Christian



mĺn 2001-12-24 klockan 00.22 skrev ERDI Gergo:
> Hi,
> 
> In my project I'd like to use the xml-i18n-tools package to store all the
> translations in one file. However, it's not clear what algorithm I should
> use to retrieve the correct translation.
> 
> The problem is that it's not at all clear what set of tags I should look
> at. Consider the following, very simple file:
> 
> <target-def>
> 	<description>This is the description in English</description>
> 	<description xml:lang="hu">This is the description in Hungarian</description>
> </target-def>
> 
> The problem is this can mean so many things:
> 
> 	* This can mean two separate <description> tags, with the first
> 	  one included in every locale and the second one only in
> 	  Hungarian ones
> 	* These are two <description> tags, and both are only available in
> 	  one locale ("C" and "hu"), so because of the C fallback, any
> 	  locale other than "hu" should include only the first one, and
> 	  "hu" should include both
> 	* This is one tag, included in "C" and "hu" locale, so if
> 	  locale="hu", only the second one exits, in other cases, only the
> 	  first one exists.
> 
> And maybe other cases as well. I definitely need some clarification here.
> I realize that there are many more issues in selecting the appropriate tag
> because there can be multiple locales set, but this part is very
> straightforward compared to deciding which set of tags to choose from.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 	Gergo
> 
> 
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