Re: [Po4a-dev]Re: French translation of GNU software manuals

[Denis Barbier]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:35:49AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
[...]
> The major drawback you said against po based solution is the difficulty to
> add a paragraph to the translation which is not the translation of an
> existing stuff, but an original, specific to this language one. In the po4a
> framework, it is done by using other files (called addendums). For example,
> if you want to add a section "About this translation", you make a new file
> for that. The first line is a header stating where this text should take
> place in the produced document, and the rest is added verbatim a the
> position determined by the header.
[...]

I do not understand why KDE folks do not use XSLT for this purpose,
any text can be added/moved/removed without modifying original document.
It needs a bit of manual intervention to adjust positioning when
original document structure changes, but it should work nicely most
of the time.

Denis