Re: Idea: each FAQ as its own xml file

On 2004/08/18, at 9:18, Michèle Garoche wrote:

>>
>>> 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.

No one worries English - English discrepancy.  Just English and other 
languages.

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

The point is how long does it take.  Some languages have not been 
maintained for a few months.  Would be a few years.  Spanish readers 
will never know there are more FAQ only if they read English pages.

> 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.

Yes, there still have many things to discuss. I don't think we will 
change immediately.

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