What John says is correct, but I'll try to explain with slightly
more
detail. (I'll explain from first principles, so please be patient if
you already know some of this!)
Actually, I'm fairly new to L10n and haven't used Publican yet, so all
this is new to me. Thanks!
Given that, I might be missing something important, but...
The docs, for the most part, seem have a clear structure, like:
The installation process - part
6. Beginning the Installation - chapter
6.1. The Boot Menu - section
So...why not come up with a file-naming scheme based on that?
Then people would have both the XML and .pot files ordered the way the
Documents are structured, no? It seems to me that would to solve the
problems you mentioned...
Off the top of my head, the only obvious problem with such a file-naming
scheme itself would be incorporating the parts "Preface" and
"Introduction".
Of course, I don't mean that the filenames would consist of numbers
only. Only that there would be numbers at the beginning of the filename
for easier searching, sorting and so on...
What do you think?