discuss: SGML-Question: Maintaining Documents in different languages
Subject:
Re: SGML-Question: Maintaining Documents in different languages
From:
Nicolas Chauvat ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jul 2002 11:08:49 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207161300430.1877-100000@aries.logilab.fr>
> I also think to dicsuss this on this list, to maybe standardisize such
> multi-language documents, because I guess a lot of translation efforts
> will be done, if it is easier for the translators.
From my experience, here are some requirements (without specific order):
* don't mix with another system (mixing po and xml prevents you from using
common xml tools, but that is what KDE does. po is good for
program messages, not documentation paragraphs)
* have the ability to diff xml files in the same way we diff text files (I
have something implemented that needs testing, any volunteer? Should I
commit it into the CVS somewhere?)
* have the ability to merge/separate languages. It's very useful to have
"english paragraph"
"spanish paragraph"
when translating into french, for example. Then extract the french
version only to produce a translated document. This merge tool
would nicely complement the above diff tool, although probably not
trivial to write...
* ... others things I am missing.
--
Nicolas Chauvat
http://www.logilab.com - "Mais où est donc Ornicar ?" - LOGILAB, Paris (France)
