docbook: Multiline entities not translated

[roptat]

I'm working with a docbook file that I want to translate. The authors added a few entity definitions at the top, and they can be translated thanks to po4a. However, one of them is on multiple lines, and po4a doesn't generate an entry for it in the po file:

  <!ENTITY openssh-size          "1.7 MB">
  <!ENTITY openssh-buildsize     "45 MB (add 22 MB for tests)">
  <!ENTITY openssh-time          "0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4;
                                  running the tests takes about 20 minutes,
                                  irrespective of processor speed)">

po4a provides translation for the first two, but not the last one.

[Fat-Zer]

For clarity, is it XML or SGML docbook?

[Fat-Zer]

Assuming the docbook is XML, it's a known limitation of the po4a's XML parser, see TODO list in man Locale::Po4a::Xml.

po4a parses XMLs with regexps, so it will be not trivial to do it right...

[mquinson]

In the meanwhile, the best is to put your entities on single lines, please.

[osamuaoki]

I may be wrong but ...

If it is non-trivial to single-line these SGML entities, put them in a separate file and include them with single-line.

<!ENTITY % commondata     SYSTEM "common.ent"      > %commondata;

Just an idea ...