GSoC idea for gettext

[Daiki Ueno]

Hello there,

address@hidden (Jose E. Marchesi) writes:

> Now is the time of populating the ideas page at
> http://www.gnu.org/s/soc-projects/ideas-2015.html
>
> Please send to this list patches against ideas-2105.html (use the
> previous years ideas pages at the obvious url for a template) containing
> the list of ideas for your project.

I would like to propose one for gettext.

<h4>Extensible XML support through Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)</h4>
<p>The <samp>xgettext</samp> command supports string extraction
  from several XML-based file formats (for GTK+, GLib, etc).  The
  scanners are currently implemented in C using the SAX interface
  provided by Expat, and not flexible enough to support emerging
  file formats.</p>
<p>The project aims to provide a way to allow consumer packages to
  supply string extraction rules by themselves, which will be
  loaded at run-time.  This is analogous
  to <a 
href="https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Local-Macros.html#Local-Macros";>local
  macros used by <samp>aclocal</samp></a>, but it could adopt
  the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/its20/";>Internationalized Tag
  Set (ITS)</a> standard instead of Autoconf macros.</p>
<p>The first step would be to to create a C library that parses
  and evaluates ITS rules, possibly using libxml2.  It should be
  small enough to be bundled into gettext, while extensible enough
  to allow a new data category to be easily implemented.</p>
<p>The next step would be integrating the library into gettext
  tools, particularly <samp>xgettext</samp>.  Optionally, it would
  be also good to extend <samp>msgfmt</samp> to be capable of
  merging translations back to original XML file.</p>
<p><strong>Contact</strong>: <a 
href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a></p>

Thanks,
-- 
Daiki Ueno