ITS rule to translate a XML attribute using namespace

Question

I'm trying to use itstool to translate some attributes from a XML file like this one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE dlg:window PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD OfficeDocument1.0//EN" "dialog.dtd">
<dlg:window xmlns:dlg="http://openoffice.org/2000/dialog" xmlns:script="http://openoffice.org/2000/script" dlg:id="settings" dlg:left="106" dlg:top="80" dlg:width="283" dlg:height="214" dlg:closeable="true" dlg:moveable="true" dlg:withtitlebar="false">
<dlg:bulletinboard>
<dlg:textfield dlg:id="token" dlg:tab-index="9" dlg:left="48" dlg:top="42" dlg:width="216" dlg:height="40" dlg:multiline="true"/>
<dlg:text dlg:id="label1" dlg:tab-index="0" dlg:left="5" dlg:top="25" dlg:width="40" dlg:height="14" dlg:value="Save path" dlg:align="right" dlg:valign="center"/>
<dlg:text dlg:id="label5" dlg:tab-index="7" dlg:left="5" dlg:top="190" dlg:width="40" dlg:height="14" dlg:value="URL" dlg:align="right" dlg:valign="center"/>
</dlg:bulletinboard>
</dlg:window>

The translatable part here is dlg:value.

For now, the rule I tried, that doesn't select any sentence to translate is:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" version="1.0">
  <its:translateRule selector="//dlg:text/@value" translate="yes"/>
</its:rules>

Seems my xpath selector is incorrect here.

EDIT: The problem seems to come from the namespace dlg here.

The problem is related to how to register namespaces for the evaluation context of your XPath expression. It seems like you are ussing `libxml2` and therefore you could benefit from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3135175/libxml2-error-with-namespaces-and-xpath — Alejandro, Mar 21 '19 at 13:00

kjhughes · Answer 1 · 2019-03-21T12:10:25.843

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Change

//dlg:text/@value

to

//dlg:text/@dlg:value

to account for the namespace on the @value attribute, which is not automatically inherited from the namespace of its element.

edited Mar 21 '19 at 12:10

answered Mar 20 '19 at 21:16

kjhughes

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It works with the correct namespace declaration as said in my latest post. – Emilio Conte Mar 21 '19 at 13:38

Emilio Conte · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-21T13:42:29.917

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Thanks to both @alejandro and @kjhughes this problem is solved.

I had to declare the namespace (used with the colon in dlg:text) in the header of the ITS rule.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" version="1.0"
           xmlns:dlg="http://openoffice.org/2000/dialog">
  <its:translateRule selector="//dlg:text/dlg:@value translate="yes"/>
</its:rules>

edited Mar 21 '19 at 13:42

answered Mar 21 '19 at 07:48

Emilio Conte

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ITS rule to translate a XML attribute using namespace

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