diff --git a/src/Messages.sh b/src/Messages.sh
index 6c0546c..0fe487f 100755
--- a/src/Messages.sh
+++ b/src/Messages.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 # extract language and section names from XML syntax definition files
 # and adapt for lupdate-based extraction to match the rest of the code
-$EXTRACTATTR --attr=language,name,Language --attr="language,section,Language Section" ../data/*.xml >> rc.cpp || exit 12
+$EXTRACTATTR --attr=language,name,Language --attr="language,section,Language Section" ../data/syntax/*.xml >> rc.cpp || exit 12
 sed -i -e 's/^i18nc/QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP/' rc.cpp
 
 grep --no-filename '"name"' ../data/themes/*.theme > rc_themes.cpp
 sed -i -e 's/"name"/QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP("Theme", /' rc_themes.cpp
 sed -i -e 's/://' rc_themes.cpp
 sed -i -e 's/,$/)/' rc_themes.cpp
 
 $EXTRACT_TR_STRINGS `find . -name \*.cpp -o -name \*.h -o -name \*.ui -o -name \*.qml` -o $podir/syntaxhighlighting5_qt.pot
 
 rm rc_themes.cpp