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Re: [platform-releng-dev] Translatable Attributes in manifest files

On a slightly different but related note, can we warn people when they have keys in their plugin.properties that are not used in the plugin.xml/manifest.mf/fragment.xml?  What I am really after here is finding people who are using plugin.properties to NL their *code* rather than just their plugin manifests.  The approach I just mentioned may not work well everywhere because sometime a fragment host has keys that are only used by the fragments but that case is pretty rare I believe.

For context, using the plugin.properties to NL your code causes us to load the strings twice since the runtime caches the values used by the plugin.xml.

Jeff



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There is no way for the chkpii tool to determine without a shadow of a
doubt which attributes in the plugin.xml are translatable and which are
not.

But PDE can, thanks to all teams marking their translatable attributes as
such in their extension point schemas.

If the build process starts ignoring plugin.xml files wholesale to avoid
bogus errors, then legitimate errors would go unnoticed.

Therefore, I recommend that teams set the PDE manifest builder flag for
'usage of non-externalized strings' to ERROR.

To do so, bring up the properties dialog of your project.  Go to the
Plug-in Manifest Compiler property page, and the flag in question is listed
last.

Wassim.

By the way, the inspiration for this email came from my observation that in
Nick's workspace, all untranslated attributes are marked as ERROR.
So I presume the Platform/UI team were the pioneers of this.





                                                                         
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This plugin.xml has been added to the ignored file list.

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The chkpii error in jdt.debug.ui should be ignored. The text is not
intended to be translated:

eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui_3.1.0_jar/
plugin.xml    XML-10      969   (W) XML tag attribute (qualifier) may
contain translatable text which cannot be translated.  Line: 2515


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