[Sugar-devel] reading and writing translatable strings

[Bryan Berry]

I am not searching, i am using a predefined list partly for the reason
you suggest ;)

On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 12:22 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote:
> Searching strings inside all HTML elements could be very slow. I
> suggest if you search inside html elements, stick to a predefined list
> of them (like a "translate" class).
> 
> 2009/7/12 Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>:
> > Subzero,
> >
> > I have figured out how to read the strings from an html file, at least
> > somewhat:
> >
> > utils/narwhal/bin/narwhal source.html output.pot
> >
> > generates a .pot file from the strings in one html file
> >
> > I haven't automated grabbing the strings from a .js file because it
> > seems fairly straightforward.
> >
> > Reading back in the strings from the po might present a problem. I
> > gather that we will have to convert the po file to a .json file
> >
> > I guess we can use the perl module po2json for now
> > (http://jsgettext.berlios.de/doc/html/po2json.html) Later we may want to
> > consider doing this w/ python or narwhal (command-line js), since
> > neither u nor I know perl.
> >
> > but we still have to match the strings w/ the target html.
> >
> > It was dead easy to grab the strings using a css selector $('h1, h2, h3,
> > title, ...')
> >
> > but to write back the strings we need to match the msgid string to the
> > actual element html. Can we create a jQuery css or XPath selector that
> > selects based on element html?  something like
> >
> > $('*[html="The <big>Highest</big> score is"]').   ???
> >
> > I am wondering if it will be feasible performance-wise to write in all
> > the strings each time the page loads. I guess the only way to find out
> > is to experiment.
> >
> > We could possibly pre-create localized html pages using narwhal. We
> > could use the package_po.json to generate index_ne_NP.html or
> > index_he.html from the command-line.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bryan W. Berry
> > Technology Director
> > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
> >
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Bryan W. Berry
Technology Director
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org