Re: Switching to XML

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 22:49 -0300, Mario wrote:

> >   And now in Chile, I wrote an app to translate postgres documentation
> > (l10n.postgresql.cl). I took SGML sources, transform to XML and to POT
> > files
> >
> >   The results are good! but is it not the best. To move from SGML to
> > XML is a hard work.
>
> I believe this point is being overlooked is people's willingness to code
> a solution ;).
>
> Mario could you please tell us *why* you ported the SGML to XML
> before doing your translation and processing? Perhaps that will carry
> more weight to this discussion then my hand waving.

The reason is that he uses xml2pot, which AFAIK only handles XML and not
SGML.

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