[Kde-extra-gear] Yet another KEG translation problem . . .

[Jeroen Wijnhout]

Tom Albers wrote:

>Op zondag 29 mei 2005 10:25, schreef Jeroen Wijnhout:
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>>Hi,
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>>Ok, this problem bit me for the latest release of Kile, for the first time,
>>but it is pretty annoying:
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>>Suppose you want to support more than the latest KDE release, not uncommon
>>for extragear apps. Let's say KDE 3.3 and KDE 3.4. Now suppose that after
>>the 3.3 release a new translator is working on your docbook file and adds
>>his/hers entity to the translated docbook. At this point an extragear app
>>is screwed, because this new entity is not available on 3.3 systems, only
>>on 3.4 systems. This means that make fails, which is generally bad ;-(
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>>Solutions? Hand editing the docbooks . . . Perhaps somebody can come up
>>with something better?
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>For an entity to work it has to be available on the users computer. So you can 
>only use it when you are sure it is there. For extragear (and koffice) 
>entities should be used very carefully or not at all. 
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Exactly, but is this common knowledge among the translators?

>Language coordinators should verify that.  If you run into that problem, you 
>should address the coordinator and not hand edit the docbook file. The 
>docbook file is an automatically generated file and your change will get lost 
>sooner or later.
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Right, Rinse can you fix it, please?

>As long as entities are part of the official kde releases, there is no other 
>solution I can think of, except for one complicated one, by merging entities 
>into the docbook, but I don't even know if that is going to work.
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xmllint is capable of doing this (option --noent).

best,
Jeroen