[Project-ideas] Creating a translation library for Mozilla DTD and similar documents

[Tirtha Chatterjee]

I want to work on bringing translation support for files like Mozilla
DTD through a desktop application.
I have studied the format of Mozilla DTDs and property files in
detail, and found that it has these salient differences with the POT
format -

1. The source string and translated string are in different files
2. The text is bound to the GUI components of the chrome, so they have
an extra property
3. They explicitly specify a keyboard accelerator

This can either be implemented as a C library that can be reused in
gtranslator, and then provide a Qt wrapper over it, and use it for
Lokalize. This approach, however, has a problem

The Lokalize and GTranslator source codes have to be drastically
changed to allow a library to provide its translation catalog. Also,
I'm not very strong with GLib.

As an alternative, Lokalize already has a class called Catalog which
has been subclassed for Pot and XLIFF files. These catalogs simply
need to be modified so that it uses two separate files, one for source
strings, another for target string (same file for POT or XLIFF,
different in case of DTDs). Also, there needs to be a field added that
stores the GUI component, which will be turned off in case of file
formats which do not use them.
This would be an easier, and in my opinion, a much easier way to
implement support for these files.

Please advise me on which alternative is better, and any points that I
may have missed out.

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Regards
Tirtha Chatterjee
KDE developer
http://wyuka.co.cc/