[Po4a-devel] Question about xml -> pot with po4a - from ADempiere ERP community

[Peanut Blake]

Hi, Denis

Thanks for your reply!
Yes, those information is very help for us.
Now I've written a Python script to deal with. Python is nice and quick.

Now we've upload POT & PO files to launchpad.net:
https://translations.launchpad.net/aderp/trunk/

Also open a Translation Project in ADempiere.
http://www.adempiere.com/index.php/TranslationProject

Thank you very much for the nice tool -- po4a !

Peanut Blake

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--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Denis Barbier <bouzim at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Denis Barbier <bouzim at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Po4a-devel] Question about xml -> pot with po4a - from ADempiere  ERP community
> To: "Peanut Blake" <peanutblake at yahoo.com>
> Cc: po4a-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Date: Monday, July 19, 2010, 9:57 AM
> On 2010/7/11 Peanut Blake wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am from ADempiere open source ERP. I am using po4a
> for translation. Thank you very much for your good work!
> > Now I meet trouble need your help.
> >
> > I have one xml file like:
> >
> >  <row id="103" trl="Y">
> >    <value column="Name"
> original="Minutes">Minutes</value>
> >    <value column="UOMSymbol" original="m  "
> pot-remark="Short form of 'Minutes'. Don't translate
> @@ID-103@@.">m  @@id-103@@</value>
> >  </row>
> >
> >
> > I want to convert to POT file like:
> >
> > #. Content of: <id-103><Name>
> > #, no-wrap
> > msgid "Minutes"
> > msgstr ""
> >
> > #. Content of: <id-103><UOMSymbol>
> > #. Short form of 'Minutes'. Don't translate
> @@ID-103@@.
> > #, no-wrap
> > msgid "m  @@id-103@@"
> > msgstr ""
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When po4a cuts text into translatable strings, it strips
> comments from
> paragraphs and inserts them into POT files.  The XML
> module is able to
> extract XML comments, you can thus write:
>   <row id="103" trl="Y">
>     <value column="Name"
> original="Minutes">Minutes</value>
>     <value column="UOMSymbol"
> original="m  "><!-- Short form of
> 'Minutes'. Don't translate @@ID-103@@. -->m 
> @@id-103@@</value>
>   </row>
> 
> But comments will be pushed back into translated XML
> files.
> 
> > I have two questions:
> >
> > 1. How to put remark in xml to POT?
> >   for example, put
> > "pot-remark="Short form of 'Minutes'. Don't translate
> @@ID-103@@.""
> >   to
> > "#. Short form of 'Minutes'. Don't translate
> @@ID-103@@."
> 
> See above.
> 
> > 2. How to put id & column in xml to POT?
> >    for example, put
> > id="103"  column="Name"
> >    to
> > #. Content of: <id-103><Name>
> >
> > Does po4a already provide such functions?
> 
> No.
> But this looks strange to me, are you sure that this
> information is
> helpful for translators?
> If you really want to work that way, you can either
>  a) write a dedicated po4a module to handle your DTD as you
> want
>  b) or transform your original XML file into another XML
> file with
> XSLT so that translatable elements contain the desired XML
> comments,
> process this XML file through po4a, and converts back
> translated XML
> files into your original format.
> 
> Denis
>