Bug 524832

This is caused by the kde tool xml2pot, which publican 0.4x uses to create pot file.

The beta uses a different tool to create pot files.

Assigning to Rudi for verification this is fixed in the beta.

Cheers, Jeff.

Well, both Publican 0.44 and the Beta change the string between the XML and the POT, but it's not an issue, because both versions understand that the two strings are equivalent:

Original string in XML:

  <para>
    This is a test paragraph and here's a ulink: <ulink url="http://www.google.com" />
  </para>

Publican 0.44 POT:

#. Tag: para
#: Chapter.xml:7
#, no-c-format
msgid ""
"This is a test paragraph and here's a ulink: <ulink url=\"http://www.google."
"com\"></ulink>"
msgstr ""

(Verified that running xml2pot from the command line produces the same output, as expected)

Publican Beta POT:

#. Tag: para
#, no-c-format
msgid "This is a test paragraph and here&#39;s a ulink: <ulink url=\"http://www.google.com\"></ulink>"
msgstr ""

So, the Beta not only changes the ulink, but it also transforms the apostrophe.

However, I created PO files and used Google's translator to put this sentence into Swedish:

#. Tag: para
#, no-c-format
msgid "This is a test paragraph and here&#39;s a ulink: <ulink url=\"http://www.google.com\"></ulink>"
msgstr "Detta är en test punkt och här är en ulink: <ulink url=\"http://www.google.com\"></ulink> "

The Beta correctly found and used this string when I ran "publican build --formats=html-single --langs=sv-SE"

Then I tried the same msgstr with Publican 0.44:

#. Tag: para
#: Chapter.xml:7
#, no-c-format
msgid ""
"This is a test paragraph and here's a ulink: <ulink url=\"http://www.google."
"com\"></ulink>"
msgstr "Detta är en test punkt och här är en ulink: <ulink url=\"http://www.google.com\"></ulink> "

Publican 0.44 also correctly found and used the string when I ran "make html-single-sv-SE"

So in both cases, XML -> POT -> PO -> HTML worked, despite discrepancies in the strings.

To round out the experiment, I found that the Beta could not use the POT/PO files generated by 0.44, nor could 0.44 use the POT/PO files generated by Beta. However, this was only because of the apostrophe, not the ulinks. When I changed the string in the original XML to:

  <para>
    This is a test paragraph and here is a ulink: <ulink url="http://www.google.com" />
  </para>

0.44 and Beta could use each other's POT/PO files.

There is an issue with tags with optional content in one of the modules Publican uses to parse XML files.

I opened a bug upstream with a patch, maybe we need to get this applied to fedora so we can fix this behavior ASAP?

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49932

The munging of the ' is due to it publican XML escaping the text content, it prevents some breakage in certain situations, it would require some testing of turning it off.

FYI if you run clean_ids the same escaping happens in the source XML.

Cheers, Jeff.

I've checked in a fix for both the changing of the XML and the escaping of the apostrophe.

The fix requires updated perl-HTML-Tree and perl-XML-TreeBuilder packages, both of which have updates making their way through bodi.

Once those changes have propagated we will spin up a BETA2 which will fix this behaviour.

Cheers, Jeff.

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