[Kbabel] How to handle XML elements in import filters' translations?

[Asgeir Frimannsson]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:17, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:54, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > Asgeir? IIRC you've done some work in this area, right?
>
> I have some thoughts on how we can improve this yes. - But I have a thesis
> due this week, so will try and get back to this mail over the weekend :)

It became a very long weekend sorry :)

> Dňa Ut 14. Jún 2005 23:51 Nicolas Goutte napísal:
> > I have noticed that Qt's translation files and XLIFF can have child
> > elements in their translation elements (for example in <source> and
> > <target> elements in XLIFF).
> >
> > However I have not much of an idea how we could show it to the user, as
> > the user might have to translate XML and HTML tags and the XLIFF export
> > filter should not try to take them as child elements. On the other side,
> > if she show such tags to translators as &lt;tag&gt; instead of <tag> they
> > would probably not be happy.

Let's take an XLIFF example:

Example-A: <source>This is a &lt;tag&gt;. This is a <ph 
id="1">placeholder</ph>. See the difference?</source>

Here, "&lt;tag&gt;" should be displayed to translators as "<tag>", while some 
other form of visual indication should be given for representing the ph 
element contents. As an example, see how transolution [1] does this:
http://people.redhat.com/asgeirf/transolution.png

So how do we practically do this? I think the only feasible way is to replace 
PO as the data model, and model a richer format such as XLIFF (both PO [2] 
and TS can be fully mapped to XLIFF - keeping translators happy).

As Nicolas has indicated in the svn log messages over the past weeks, a lot of 
what we're doing now, in regards to supporting XLIFF and TS, is 'hacks' using 
PO fields to store data.

Well, I guess this is partly what I'm addressing in the Summer of Code 
project :)
 
cheers,
asgeir


[1] http://transolution.python-hosting.com/
[2] 
http://xliff-tools.freedesktop.org/snapshots/po-repr-guide/wd-xliff-profile-po.html