Rick Hillegas created DERBY-5878:
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Summary: Add message argument names, as comments, to English
message file produced by MessageBuilder.
Key: DERBY-5878
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5878
Project: Derby
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Build tools
Affects Versions: 10.10.0.0
Reporter: Rick Hillegas
The MessageBuilder program turns messages.xml into two output files:
1) The DITA source for the Reference Guide section on error messages.
2) The messages_en.properties file of engine messages.
All of the translators I have dealt with want to use (2) as the English input
for their translations. I believe this is because translators have written
their own tools and those tools expect to work on properties files.
Messages may have arguments. Those arguments appear as sub-elements of the
messages in messages.xml. The arguments turn up in (1) but are thrown away when
MessageBuilder produces (2). We can help translators do a better job by also
writing the arguments as comments in (2).
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