[Po4a-devel] XML: prevent some attributes from being translated

[poy]

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From: "poy" <poy at 123gen.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Po4a-devel] XML: prevent some attributes from being translated


> hi,
>
> i have tried turning on the "foldattributes" option on our whole project,
> and it seems the generated .pot file sometimes has weird numbering 
> regarding
> po4a-id attributes.
>
> it seems that the po4a-id number isn't always reset to 0; if a translation
> has multiple foldable attributes, eg:
> msgid "<span po4a-id=0>aaa</span> <span po4a-id=1>bbb</span> <span
> po4a-id=2>ccc</span>"
> then on the next (totally unrelated, could even be in a separate file)
> translation, the po4a-id counter stays at 2, so i will get something like:
> msgid "blah <a po4a-id=2>blah</a> <span po4a-id=3>blah</span> ..."
> and etc.
> as a result, by the end of the .pot file, i find things like:
> msgid ""
> "TLS can't be used because no certificate files set. You should set or "
> "generate them properly in the <a po4a-id=78>Security certificates</a>
> page."


oh, and translation of texts containing these wrongly-numbered ids doesn't 
work.

here's a test-case:

<p>
abc <a href="correct_link.html" target="bla">link!</a> def <a 
href="link2.html">link2</a> x <span style="">span1</span> b <a h=0>a3</a> 
<span x=y>span2</span>bbbbbb
</p>

<p>
abcd <a xx=yy>sss</a>
</p>

the 1st paragraph is ok in the .pot file, but the 2nd appears as:
msgid "abcd <a po4a-id=5>sss</a>"
instead of:
msgid "abcd <a po4a-id=0>sss</a>"

hence the 2nd paragraph (and all subsequent translations that will contain a 
po4a-id) is impossible to translate.

poy