Hi Friedel, list,
Please see my comments inline
F Wolff schrieb:
Hi list
[...]
I'll be the first to agree that the raw SDF data isn't pretty. XML type
tags are escaped, and yes, if somebody does the work, going directly
from the XML help files to translation formats, could provide some
benefits. Having looked at the current help files, however, I didn't
immediately see what the format rules for escaping are so that I could
hide it during conversion to PO or XLIFF files. I'd be very much in
favour of working on a better escaped interpretation for helpcontent2.
Specifically, last time I checked, there were escaped '<' characters
_and_ unescaped ones. This would need to be sorted out to be able to
the escaped ones should be left untouched by translation whereas the
unescaped ones are just part of the text. The escaped ones should only
occur in tag context.
[...]
Yuri, I agree that context is a big issue, and I think we agree that
context is mostly an independent issue from the workflow and file
formats. As far as I know the SDF file can already contain
meta-information by means of the x-comment information. oo2po from the
translate toolkit will add those notes to the PO file (and oo2xliff will
add it to note tags of XLIFF files). I think the issue is rather that
these haven't been maintained. I don't personally know much about this.
Perhaps somebody can add some information about SDF files with x-comment
information?
I doubt that the localization tools used to extract the strings form the
sources fully support extraction of comments.
Maybe for some source file types but most likely not for all.
Embarrassingly gsicheck does not know about them ether. It knows about
the gsi-file counterpart but not yet about x-comment.
We also have a converter that goes directly from SDF to XLIFF. It
shipped with the current version of the toolkit, although a packaging
bug might hide it for some users. The packaging bug will be fixed in the
next versions of the toolkit.
there is a converter in the Office also located in the transex3 module.
It converts sdf <-> gsi and sdf <-> xliff and its written in java.
Just wanted to mention it
Regards
Gregor
(doing amongst others the gsicheck)
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