Re: [docbook-apps] OT: How to translate DocBook documents into differentlanguages

Jordi Vilalta wrote
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Joachim Ziegler wrote:
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>> - In the English document, I don't want to type in again all the 
>> markup which took me so many hours. I want to reuse my precious 
>> markup. The structure of the target document will be exactly the same.
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> I'm currently working in a program called po4a (po for anything), which 
> aims to help in the translation of documentation using the gettext 
> standard po files. There's currently an sgml module that can handle 
> pretty well the sgml docbook documents (and some simple xml documents). 
> We're currently working on an Xml module which will soon be able to 
> completely translate docbook xml documents.
You should take a look at xml2po, which is a set of Python scripts used 
by Gnome Documentation Project (that is, Serbian translation team) - it 
is a bit gnome-help specific (DocBook 4.1.2 XML). It is currently 
maintained by Danilo Shegan (URL is http:kvota.net/hacks/xml2po/)


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