docbook: comment is moved to wrong location for nested labels

[xry111]

test.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
]>

<chapter>
  <title>Test</title>

  <!-- some comment -->

  <screen><userinput>/path/to/command --some-arg</userinput></screen>
</chapter>

test.po:

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2021-02-20 15:02+0800\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[email protected]>\n"
"Language: \n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

#. type: Content of: <chapter><title>
#: test.xml:7
msgid "Test"
msgstr "测试"

#.  some comment 
#. type: Content of: <chapter><screen>
#: test.xml:11
#, no-wrap
msgid "<userinput>/path/to/command --some-arg</userinput>"
msgstr "<userinput>/path/to/command --some-arg</userinput>"

The output of po4a-translate -f docbook -m test.xml -p test.po is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
]>

<chapter>
  <title>测试</title>

  

  <screen><!-- some comment -->
<userinput>/path/to/command --some-arg</userinput></screen>
</chapter>

Now we have a leading empty line in the box, if we convert it to a HTML page.

[mquinson]

I think that the easiest would it be to remove the comments in the translated file all together.

Would it work for you?

[xry111]

I think that the easiest would it be to remove the comments in the translated file all together.

Would it work for you?

Yes. I'm currently using a very complicated sed to do it.