Re: Switching to XML

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Mario <gonzalemario(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: 2006-12-10 12:20:34
Message-ID: 20061210122034.GD12108@alvh.no-ip.org
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 22:49 -0300, Mario wrote:

> > And now in Chile, I wrote an app to translate postgres documentation
> > (l10n.postgresql.cl). I took SGML sources, transform to XML and to POT
> > files
> >
> > The results are good! but is it not the best. To move from SGML to
> > XML is a hard work.
>
> I believe this point is being overlooked is people's willingness to code
> a solution ;).
>
> Mario could you please tell us *why* you ported the SGML to XML
> before doing your translation and processing? Perhaps that will carry
> more weight to this discussion then my hand waving.

The reason is that he uses xml2pot, which AFAIK only handles XML and not
SGML.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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