Re: Feature proposal: string extracting by RegExp for xgettext

[YS]

Hi Bruno,

> So if I understand it right, tools for extracting translatable strings and
> for merging back translated strings into XML documents could use this
> W3C ITS specification?

Yes.

> There is no free implementation of it right now?

There is at least one: the XML Filter used by Rainbow (http://
okapi.sourceforge.net/Release/Filters/Help/xml.htm)
(Rainbow: http://okapi.sourceforge.net/downloads.html).

And more to come (in Java).


> An implementation of it would have to rely on XPath. For example, use 
> libxml2. Right?

Yes, using XPath is the easiest way to implement it. Indirectly, you
could also use XSLT.


Cheers,
-yves