[Po4a-devel][patch] Making Html.pm (slightly) better

[Denis Barbier]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:03:41AM +0000, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 08:58:10PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > Can you please send a test file, so that we can
> >   1. See which files can currently be processed.
> >   2. Make sure that future changes in other parts do not break
> >      your work.
> 
> Woha, you're making me work in a stricter environment than
> my workplace :-)
> 
> Ok, I'm getting my head around the whole testing stuff right
> now. My first impression is that quite some code could be
> consolidated (Dia.pm and Xml.pm are essentially the same
> thing).

Don't get me wrong, the problem with this HTML module is that few
people are interested in using it, thus adding tests seems to be
the only way to prevent us from making incompatible changes in
other parts of po4a.  I did not write any single test here, so I
can not give lessons on good software practice ;)

> For the sake of testing, it'd be convenient to fill all the
> msgstr of an empty PO file with a copy of the msgid. That
> way, you can apply the PO to the original file, and check it
> looks the same (through whatever kind of browser is relevant
> to the format). Does such a tool exist? If not, would one be
> welcome in po4a?

See msgen,  but I am not sure that it will be helpful here,
will have a closer look later.

Denis