Do not translate <placeholder-X/> tags (xml2po)

[Karl Eichwalder]

"Carlos E. R." <address@hidden> writes:

> On Monday 2008-09-29 at 17:06 +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>
>>
>> Do not translate <placeholder-1/> etc.  These translations are wrong:
>
> Maybe you could modify the validation script on your svn server to reject 
> those when trying to upload :-?

I'd rather say enhancing "msgfmt --check" resp. "--check-format" would
be the way to go.  Thus all projects can make use of it.

Bruno, some background information: xml2po coming with gnome-doc-utils
converts XML and HTML files to POT files.  While segmenting inline tags
such as <em> or <a> are converted to separate messages and replaced with
<placeholder-X/> tags.  Example:

<li><em>apm=off</em>  -- switch off APM completely</li>

==>

#: help-boot.html:102(em) 
msgid "apm=off"
msgstr ""

#: help-boot.html:102(li) 
msgid "<placeholder-1/> -- switch off APM completely"
msgstr ""

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Now we must make sure translators do not translate the <placeholder-X/>
tags incidentally.  <placeholder-X/ must occur in the msgstr, too.
Correct German translation:

#: help-boot.html:78(em)
msgid "acpi=off"
msgstr "acpi=off"

#: help-boot.html:78(li)
msgid "<placeholder-1/> -- switch off ACPI completely"
msgstr "<placeholder-1/> -- ACPI komplett abschalten"

Here is a minimal test script:

msgfmt-xml2po
Description: msgfmt xml2po test

-- 
Karl Eichwalder
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