Re: doc-i18n-tool

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:48:47PM -0400, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 15:23, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > >   Hum, I will let Jonathan check this one.

  And for a reason ... that's where it belongs !

> > My plan was to use xmllint for this.  In my example, I ran the doc
> > through xmllint --noblanks before passing it to doc-i18n-tool.  I don't
> > think doing anything else is worth doing.

  Wrong it's not the right place

> I did.  It doesn't appear to work to remove those.  The above snippit is
> from policies.pot, generated with the command 'xmllint --noblanks
> |doc-i18n-tool --output-pot-file policies.xml > file.pot'.  policies.xml
> is gnome-docu/gnome-org-policies/policies.xml.  

  --noblanks removes *formatting* blanks !

<a> <b/> </a>  =>  <a><b/></a>
<a><b> </b></a>  is not modified !

 You need to process this at the string handling level !
Commit this somewhere in CVS even if it need a new bogo module if nobody 
accepts this. I cannot comment or work on code "in the air" !

Daniel

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