[Kbabel] Tags validator]

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Dwayne Bailey wrote:

> Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Dwayne Bailey wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Check msgid for XML conformance.  If it passes then check the msgstr. 
> >>That way we know if the original is valid before we get translators 
> >>confused.
> > 
> > 
> > I like the idea!
> 
> Sometimes these discussion are worthwhile.  I think we still need to
> apply some of our fudges such as "capitals" and <br/> to ensure that
> these messages are still treated as valid and then move on to the msgstr 
> and apply the same checking.

Yes, but if msgid still fails, then it's important to report this to 
authors. I'm not sure how to indicate this kind of problem, both in KBabel 
and Catalog Manager.

> 
> >>We could also check the msgid in a relaxed mode ie <p> with </p> if that 
> >>passes then do the same on the msgstr.
> >>
> >>If msgid passes no XML test then it is the source of the problem.  Then 
> >>a simple tag count might be more appropriate.  This tag count could 
> >>eliminate errors such as msgid "<ERROR>" being flagged as invalid.
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe no checking at all.
> 
> I would suggest that we check the msgid at various fudge levels.  If it 
> passes at one of these levels then we check the msgstr.  If it fails our 
> most relaxed level then we ignore it.
> 
> Only problem with this is that it won't pick up translations where the 
> translator has fixed the bad formating supplied in the msgid but got it 
> wrong.  But I think that is rare emough.

Surely. A technical problem is, that the validation tools cannot be 
configured visually ATM. Should they?

Stanislav