[...] | This proposal has two drawbacks : | | 1) it is way too complicated: with contributor.entities in two different | places, I can predict a huge mess | | 2) this is exactly what I didn't want : a file for the &Eric.Bischoff; | entities, and another one for &Eric.Bischoff.traducteur;. I would like this | stuff to be in the same file to _enforce_ the usage of entities like | &Eric.Bischoff.traducteur;. | | We could put everything in contributor.entities, which would be language | specific, as user.entities currently is. So every translation team would keep | control upon its own contributors list, including the editors team.
OK, we could do that too. I don't have a strong view where what is defined, and fewer files are probably better. Enforcing the use of the entities is technically not possible, but one can "raise awareness" considerably by putting them in one file as you say. (I liked the French setup with entities per location where they were to be used (CREDIT/ROLE).) There is no point in making authors, programmers etc. language specific, as that would be quite a duplication of definitions, so we do need one global contributor entities file and one language-specific one. "Global" just means that every other language would include it (and the editors team would maintain that). The setup is more complicated for people who are both translators and authors, but there's nothing that can be done about it (I think), except commenting the fact in the files (which is VERY helpful - hint, hint ;-). XML will only use one definition, and as usual I will set it up so that the global one wins. | > It could also be considered to define _all_ names in the general | > contributor.entities file. That may be simpler, but it increases | > the number of defined entities. Opinions on this are welcome | > (before I start adding contributor.entities for the languages, | > 'cause that teeeedious ;-). | | Yes, please let's agree on the details before we implement anything. | | I would even like it to the point where we can do the first version of | contributor.entities automatically out of the docbook files ! Well, if someone would like to sit down and do some XSL/perl/... magic, that'd be very nice indeed! ;-) Frederik
