208561 - simple grammar error in xslt failure message

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[Joseph Myers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

"Parsing a XSLT stylesheet failed."
correctly should be writtten as
"Parsing an XSLT stylesheet failed."
(x is pronounced with a beginning vowel sound--an is used before all words with
a beginning bowel sound)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Joseph Myers]

oops: an is used before all words with a beginning _vowel_ sound.

Comment 2

[Damian Yerrick]

Grammatical errors are Severity: trivial.

Reporter:  Can you provide a public test case?

Comment 3

[Joseph Myers]

try this page:
http://www.providenceproject.com/fmxml/fmpro.xml

  I don't know if the xml is right or not, but it does show the grammatical
mistake in the error message (Mozilla 1.4 rc1 on MacOSX). Perhaps grep -r 'a
XSLT' in the Mozilla tree would find the source file, and changing it to "an
XSLT" would then be easy.

Comment 4

[Joseph Myers]

Attachment: a patch for the grammar error, i.e, "a xslt" / "a xul"

Here are patches to a few files with the spelling mistake:

I checked out the whole CVS to do this, so pls don't ignore.

The patch is for these files:

mozilla/extensions/transformiix/resources/buster/ReadMe
mozilla/extensions/transformiix/resources/xslt.properties

Those were the first I found when grepping, so I don't know if there are more.

nb: I could not find (quickly) a guideline for the correct patch format, so I
used -pru. Should someone add a bug to have this be mentioned directly in the
first Bugzilla fact sheet? (Forget it: I just found it, "cvs diff -u >
mypatch.diff," although it indirectly assumes one is using CVS.)

Comment 5

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

Comment on attachment 126262 [details] [diff] [review]
a patch for the grammar error, i.e, "a xslt" / "a xul"

>+The buster is an XUL interface to the conformance tests shipped as part of

XUL is pronounced "zool" so I am not sure about this change.

Comment 6

[Axel Hecht]

Hixie	it's "a XUL document" with "an XBL binding"
Hixie	i say that as the editor of both those specs :-)
Hixie	(well, one of the editors)

checked in, thanx for the fix.