Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
To summarize, as message ids translation for attributes was added, 2.7 and 3 are working according to the doc/spec, but 2.7 breaks backward compatibility to 2.6.1.
This leads to the following question : do we (1) accept this rupture in i18n:attributes management or do we (2) want 2.7 to cover space separated attributes ?
IOW, could people that need backward compatibility stand up ?
Plone 1.1 needs backwards compatibility. Plone guys would like not to have to maintain two versions for 2.6 and 2.7 This implies that we need to implement the second possibility : 2.7 must accept space separated attributes.
BTW, second choice would lead us to a bad situation where we cannot discriminate between
<span value="value" title="title" i18n:attributes="value title" />
and
<span value="value" title="title" i18n:attributes="title msgtitle" />
Quoting Jim on #zope3-dev :
ok, then I suggest: In the case where there are other than 2, there is no ambiguity If there is a semicolon, then use the new rule "foo title;" -> title is message id so if there are two things: "foo bar" if *bar* is an attr, then: Translate it and issue a depreication warning using the warnings module if *bar* if not an attr: Treat it as a message id.
IOW if space separated and there are more than two items, all are treated as attributes plus deprecation warning if space separated and two items : - i18n:attributes="value msg_id;" (with semicolon) will always be treated as <attr> <msg_id> - i18n:attributes="value title" will be treated as <attr> <attr> as long as title exist as attribute plus deprecation warning -- Godefroid Chapelle BubbleNet sprl rue Victor Horta, 18 / 202 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Tel + 32 (10) 459901 TVA 467 093 008 RC Niv 49849