[Po4a-devel] Translatable attributes in HTML

Thu Aug 9 20:22:53 UTC 2007

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:36:19PM +0300, Kaloian Doganov wrote:
>     This is what we went through when we moved to using Xhtml.pm. The
>     goal being that every file is individually well-formed, and you
>     only ever include entire sections.
> 
> Sounds reasonable, but this way we cannot keep the simple paradigm:
> 
>     <!--#include virtual="/header.html" -->
>     main text
>     <!--#include virtual="/footer.html" -->
> 
> I'm not convinced it's worth breaking it.

What we have is a skeleton, so a file looks like:

<html>
<!--#include virtual="header.html"-->

<body>
  main text
</body>
<!--#include virtual="footer.html"-->
</html>

I guess that is more cruft than your solution.

> I understand that it is reasonable for the xhtml module to expect a
> well-formed input and I'm far from urging for changing this.

Well, if it can be made to work on other inputs, it'd be a
shame not to do that. At the end of the day, a good tool is
a tool that does something useful :)

Y.