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Regarding the comment "''we need to have markup to indicate translatable strings''". I would like to comment that we have developed a technique that is able to extract messages from a XHTML file without any specific markup. To make it happen it makes a difference between block and inline elements.

It is also able to segment a text, so if a paragraph has several sentences it will extract them as different message ids.

You can give it a try, just download latest itools[[http://www.ikaaro.org/itools/|itools]]. Once installed the script try:

$ igettext-extract SOMEFILE.xhtml.en > fr.po

It will produce a PO file. Then you can translate this PO file and type:

$ igettext-build SOMEFILE.xhtml.en fr.po > SOMEFILE.xhtml.fr

This command will produce a new XHTML file that is the translation of the source file.

This technique produces good quality messages for the translator, and is a bless for the developer.<<BR>> <<BR>>