[bug #58643] ITS - Double escapes when merging translations back to XML

[Samy Mahmoudi]

URL:
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                 Summary: ITS - Double escapes when merging translations back
to XML
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: samy_mahmoudi
            Submitted on: lun. 22 juin 2020 17:31:49 UTC
                Category: XML
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hi all,

In the second use-case of XML internationalization (as described in 16.1.6.1:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Preparing-ITS-Rules.html),
special characters in the extracted strings should be escaped when they are
merged back, and they are indeed escaped as intended.

However, when extracting strings from the original XML document, escaped
special characters are not unescaped. I doubt that this is the intended
behavior.

For example, <short>foo &amp; bar</short> (in the original XML document) with
a //short translateRule selector (ITS) successively becomes:

msgid "foo &amp; bar" (in gnu.po, before translation)
msgstr ""

msgid "foo &amp; bar"
msgstr "jed &amp; zvd" (in gnu.po, after translation into the GNU
language...)

<short>foo &amp; bar</short>
<short xml:lang="gnu">jed &amp;amp; zvd</short> (in the merged XML)

Would xgettext rather unescape special characters when extracting strings from
original XML documents ? Or at least optionally for this use-case ?

In addition to avoiding double escapes in the merged XML document, unescaping
special characters when extracting strings from original XML documents would
also increase readability in the translation process, since msgid "foo &amp;
bar" is less readable than msgid "foo & bar".

Best regards,
Samy Mahmoudi



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