[publican-list] Comments in XML files, good, bad, or ugly?

[Michael Hideo-Smith]

----- "Jeff Fearn" <jfearn at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: "Jeff Fearn" <jfearn at redhat.com>
> To: "publican" <publican-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:02:14 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
> Subject: [publican-list] Comments in XML files, good, bad, or ugly?
>
> Currently when you run `make clean_ids` any comments using the <!--
> ... --> format get removed.
> 
> This was left in place as in some circumstances inline comments break
> translations as the merging process does not match the msgid. 

Hi Jeff,

I am in favour of preserving comments during the clean_ids routine. It has always been the in-line comments that break translation.

ie this is bad:

<para>So then <!-- Mary Jane --> Mary said, these codes sample in <!-- BZ443556 --> BZ4333 no worky worky for me. </para>

ie this is good

<!-- Was Mary Jane and was BZ443556 -->
<para>So then Mary said, this codes sample in BZ4333 no worky worky for me.</para>

- Mike