Transition to Mallard?

[Shaun McCance]

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 17:20 +0100, Milo Casagrande wrote:
> 2010/1/20 Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com>:
> >
> >      * Requires modifications to the toolchain. I don't know how
> >        smoothly we can do this. For example, can we get Mallard and
> >        Rosetta working together nicely before release?
> 
> As long as you have POT and PO files, you are fine. Since for GNOME we
> use xml2po and Ubuntu uses xml2po, this shouldn't be a real problem.
> There might still be something to fix on xml2po part, but now it is
> already usable (see Empathy help).
> 
> The toolchain modification might be on the XSLT part, but I can't
> remember now what Ubuntu is based on.

Two things I would like to see xml2po support that
would make Mallard translations top-notch:

1) Support for additional link titles.  Mallard allows
you to provide multiple alternative titles that you can
select between when linking to a page or section.  This
was explicitly done for translations, as many languages
need to use different title text when links are used in
different grammatical roles.  But it's a moot feature
if the tool chain doesn't support it.

2) Support for at least some of the W3C ITS.  There are
notes on Mallard and ITS here:
  http://projectmallard.org/1.0/its.html
In particular, it would be nice to support its:translate
(discussed in R012).

I should really add content to the Internationalization
Notes and Translations Notes in the spec.

-- 
Shaun McCance
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