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diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi index b1cb24e21..fef15c1ad 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi +++ b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi @@ -12286,7 +12286,18 @@ A required @code{escape} attribute with the value @code{yes} or @code{no}. This data category extends the standard @samp{Preserve Space} data category with the additional value @samp{trim}. The value means to remove the leading and trailing whitespaces of the content, but not to -normalize whitespaces in the middle. +normalize whitespaces in the middle. In the global rule, the +@code{preserveSpaceRule} element contains the following: + +@itemize +@item +A required @code{selector} attribute. It contains an absolute selector +that selects the nodes to which this rule applies. + +@item +A required @code{space} attribute with the value @code{default}, +@code{preserve}, or @code{trim}. +@end itemize @end table @@ -12363,6 +12374,22 @@ rule files and locating rule files must be installed in the properly installed, @code{xgettext} can extract translatable strings from the matching XML files. +@subsubsection Two Use-cases of Translated Strings in XML + +For XML, there are two use-cases of translated strings. One is the case +where the translated strings are directly consumed by programs, and the +other is the case where the translated strings are merged back to the +original XML document. In the former case, special characters in the +extracted strings shouldn't be escaped, while they should in the latter +case. To control wheter to escape special characters, the @samp{Escape +Special Characters} data category can be used. + +To merge the translations, the @samp{msgfmt} program can be used with +the option @code{--xml}. @xref{msgfmt Invocation}, for more details +about how one calls the @samp{msgfmt} program. @samp{msgfmt}'s +@code{--xml} option doesn't perform character escaping, so translated +strings can have arbitrary XML constructs, such as elements for markup. + @c This is the template for new data formats. @ignore |