On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:52:46PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
On Saturday 24 September 2005 11:25 pm, Khalid B wrote:
2. XML While everyone is using XML today, and it is very much in vogue, do we really needed? Wouldn't a simple:
key1:text goes here key2:other text goes here
Be just as adequate?
Probably. As long as it's easily hand-editable it should work fine. I suggested XML because of the plethora of editing tools available and it's good design vis a vis escape-needing characters. A colon-delimited text file or some such would work too, as long as we handle escaping of real colons in the string.
Assuming that keys does not contain colons (which is quite safe to assume/impose) you don't need any escaping. Before the first : is a key, after that is a text...
The idea is to not use PO files and t() in the first place for the help text, because for larger text strings they're much slower than a simple database hit.
How are they slower? -- Piotrek irc: #debian.pl Mors Drosophilis melanogastribus!