[Koha-devel] HTML files

[Bobby Billingsley]

Hi folks :)

While I'm in the process of translating the *.tmpl files to danish I've
come up with a few things I'm unsure about.

The HTML in these files is giving me a bit of a hard time, frankly it's a bit
tricky for my wetware to snoop around the stuff looking for strings to
translate.

As an aid in this matter I've made a little perl wrapper for w3.org's tidy
program. This is a great help, however there are a few issues with this
approach.

The main thing is that it croaks on the HTML::Tidy tags, even when configuring
it to accept these tags. The solution to this would be to re-write these tags
as

	<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME='blargh' -->

rather than

	<TMPL_VAR NAME="BLARGH">

...this will also produce well-formed HTML which (to me at least) seems like a
good idea.



Another issue is when using non-ascii characters I'd prefer to use entities
like "&egrave;" rather then "&#232;" but am not sure what the general consensus
on this is.

Also, the tidy program seems to do a nice job of converting style-type tags
into style properties/CSS - is this desireable?

/bobby

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