Re: Help with emacs scripting

[Daniel Sousa <daniel@sousa.me>]

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> This is probably not hard, but more information would be useful.
>
> . Are the .xsl and .php files similarly named? "bob.xsl" and "bob.php"?
>
I have a few .xsl files and all the define()'s go to the same .php file.

. Do you already have a regular expression to find the strings? Maybe you
> have a "good" sample of strings to look for.
>
Unfortunately I will have to look for the string manually


> . Does the location of the DEFINE() in the PHP file matter? Could it be
> replacing something else? (Or interfering with something else?)
>
We are creating a .php file that is basically only a lot of those defines,
then we send it to the translators and we have one of those files for each
language.


>
> ,Doug
>

Thank you very much for your attention.


>
>
>
> From: Daniel Sousa
> Sent: Monday, 2012 April 09 05:38
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Help with emacs scripting
>
> I'm new to emacs and I have not used it much, but I think that it could
> really help me on the task I'm currently doing.
>
> I need to change a web app to make it translatable. Now I have to change a
> bunch of .xsl files. What I need to do is find the strings, then replace
> them by something like <xsl:value-of select="/xml/lang/foo" /> and add to a
> .php something like DEFINE("_LANG_FOO","bar");
>
> I think it would be really easy to create an emacs script to automatically
> do this, but I don't know how to do it. Can anyone help me?
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel Sousa
>

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