On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:01:10AM +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: >> So would I be correct in thinking that's not what Publican does, and >> that entities are only supposed to be used in Publican docs to >> represent non-translatables like a year or a company name? >> > Yes, that's correct. Publican is built on the KDE tool xml2pot, not the > GNOME tool xml2po, and xml2pot doesn't have the "-e" option that xml2po > does. > > Publican uses xml2pot because it is /significantly/ faster than xml2po, > which is important when handling the huge documents that we work with in > Red Hat Engineering Content Services. To put the difference in > perspective: while Publican was in early development, conversions of the > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide (a document of around 300,000 > words) were done with both tools. Xml2pot finished the entire run in all > 23 languages around the same time that xml2po finished the /first/ > language! Having sat through our toolchain's build process innumerable times, I definitely see your point. Not sure why the xml2po tool hasn't been fully ported to C at this point, but meh. > That said, there are such obvious advantages to using entities such as > &DISTRO; so this is something that will no doubt be revisited if and when > xml2pot ever gets an option equivalent to "-e". But for now, we just can't > do it. *nod* -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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