Description Simon Archer 2008-09-09 16:49:37 EDT

The "PDE Tools > Externalize Strings" dialog does not detect all non-externalized attributes/values of the <extension-point> and <extension> elements. Consider the following fictional example:

  <extension-point
    id="suggestions"
    name="Suggestions Box"
    schema="schema/suggestions.exsd"/>

  <extension point="org.example.suggestions" name="My Suggestion">
    <suggestion>Turn up the air conditioning</suggestion>
  </extension>

In this case the following non-externalized strings should have been identified by the wizard:

1. The <extension-point> element's required name attribute.
2. The <extension> element's optional name attribute. 
3. The <suggestion> element's contents.

Regarding the <suggestion> element's contents, I am not even sure how to say in the EXSD schema editor that the contents is translatable.  This could well be a separate bug.

If you have the PDE preferences cranked up you can get warnings and quick fixes in the Plug-in Manifest Editor for 1 and 2 above.  But not for 3.  The quick fixes are as follows:

1. Externalize the name attribute
2. Open Externalize Strings Wizard...

Of these two, the first works well, but the second does not open the wizard but rather responds with a dialog that says: "All strings in manifest file have been externalized".  Clearly there is conflicting logic here.

This bug report has become quite long and I'm sorry for presenting so many issues, but they all seem to be related.

For references, here something from the Eclipse 3.3 documentation regarding these elements:

http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/plugin_manifest.html

A candidate for bugday perhaps.