Re: Idea: each FAQ as its own xml file

Le 18 août 2004, à 2:01, BABA Yoshihiko a écrit :

>
> On 2004/08/18, at 0:15, Michèle Garoche wrote:
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>> I don't understand here. If languages have no translator, there is no 
>> translation and I don't see how then there can be discrepancies 
>> between English and English.
>
> FAQ General Questions have five entries (1.1 to 1.5).  If someone 
> added an entry (FAQ 1.6), but I had no time to translate into 
> Japanese, then Japanese will never have FAQ 1.6, which is the 
> descrepancy.
Temporary discrepancy between Japanese and English, but not between 
English and English.

And later you have time to translate and there is no more discrepancy. 
Anyway, the translation cannot be in real time.

Then, there is another problem splitting the files, the print version 
has chance to be only related to the small file, hence you loose the 
benefice of searching the whole faq, which is really the only way to 
search correctly the documentation.

And if you are about to make this change (as alas it seems), I don't 
see why it would be restricted to FAQ, user's guide is also huge, as 
well as packaging, etc... Almost any file in xml is huge. Only the 
files in web are small.

The dichotomization of things is not always the better way to go. In 
this case, it's more like hiding the forest behind the trees.

Michèle
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>