From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 28 9:32:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA2637BC58; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA67874; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:31:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:31:46 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Hiroki Sato Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT Message-ID: <20000628173144.B51610@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000626115008.B462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <200006271619.BAA25205@mail.geocities.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006271619.BAA25205@mail.geocities.co.jp>; from hrs@geocities.co.jp on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:49:34PM +0900 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:49:34PM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote > in <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>: > > > [ That schema is not set in stone, and certainly requires more work. In > > particular, we probably need "lang" and "encoding" options on the > > element, to support comments in more than one language. ] > > > > LINT would then become a skeletal file for things which don't fit this > > sort of pattern, and the full LINT would be generated by a script which > > parsed the above and the skeletal file to generate the full LINT. > > I think it is difficult to maintain the files because few editors > can handle various languages/encodings at the same time. > So, especially for translators, it is better that the .xml files > are separated on a encoding/language basis. Possibly. I was thinking that the only thing that would be language specific about each driver would be the comment section. ... All the other stuff is language independent. That being the case, it wouldn't be too hard to do ... ... and so on, would it? Or does loading Japanese text in to a non-Japanese aware editor scramble the text? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message