Me place el informar

Me place el informar
 

Why is el informar used in the following sentence instead of le informar or informarle?

Me place el informar a Ud. que la clase a la que atiende su niño participará en el Programa Nacional de Incentivo.

I am pleased to inform you that the class your child attends will participate in the National Incentive Program.
Also does a la que stand for to which?

The indirect object pronoun le is suffixed to an infinitive in most cases. So, informarle would be correct. But, the sentence in question is using a gerund (a noun derived from a verb).
I wonder if the sentence came from a native speaker.

Me place = it pleases me
el informar = informing (gerund)
a Ud. = you
que la clase = that the class
a la que = which (to that which)
atiende = :bad: (wrong verb used here - it should be asiste)
...

Your translation of the sentence is correct, and it also happens to fit this reworded version of the sentence:
Me place informarle a Ud. que la clase a la que asiste ...

Both sentence and translation were found on AboutSpanish.com Spanish Word of the Day. Placer being the featured Word of the Day.
So when el (is it still a definite article?) is placed before an infinitive, that means it's being used as a gerund.
informando/el informar/same difference then?

Almost. In English when you want to use a verb as a noun, you use the gerund (ends in -ing). In Spanish when you want to use a verb as a noun, you use the infinitive preceded by "el".

informing = el informar
walking = el caminar
talking = el hablar
eating = el comer

I want to do a commentary about of the cmos's opinion, look you have said, your translation was made in a translate machine, let me telling you something, you must not believe every translate made for a translation machine, because, if you know, the translation machine does not exact the own translation of the phrase or oration, the I give you a hint, you must ask first the question there in the website and we gladly will answer your doubt.

Nothing was said about a translation machine, Crotalito. A web site contained both the Spanish sentence and the English translation found in post #1 of this thread. We've been trying to help make sense of parts of the Spanish sentence that weren't clear to cmon.

All clear now, thanks everyone!

Rusty, then What does AboutSpanish.com mean? that website, if you found the phrase translate in a website then for logical, the translation of the phrase or oration was made for a translate machine, and does not for a person.

Si encuentras una frase y su traducción escritas en una página, ¿por qué dices que por lógica es una traducción automática y no hecha por una persona? En fin, no fue una traducción automática. :)

AboutSpanish.com is a Spanish learning site. On that site they list all kinds of sentences, in both languages, to help English-speaking people to learn Spanish.

When someone uses a computer program to translate from one language to another, that is known as using a machine translation.
I doubt the folks at AboutSpanish.com used a machine translation.

To prove that, let's use a few of the best machine translation services to translate the English sentence into Spanish.

Here's the English sentence I will enter at each site:
I am pleased to inform you that the class your child attends will participate in the National Incentive Program.

Here is the machine translation from babelfish.yahoo.com:
Estoy satisfecho informarle que que la clase que su niño atiende participará en el programa incentivo nacional.

Here is the machine translation from freetranslation.com:
Soy complacido para informarle que la clase su niño asiste tomará parte en el Programa Nacional de Estímulo.

Here is the machine translation from translate.google.com:
Me complace informarle de que la clase de su hijo asiste a participar en el Programa Nacional de Incentivos.

As you can see, each of the different computer programs I used produced a pretty bad translation of the English sentence, which I translate as:
Me da placer (me complace) informarle a Ud. que la clase a la que asiste su niño tomará parte en el Programa Nacional de Incentivos.

Let me enter to the website, I will check personally the oration, I need to see the What does kind of help provide you.

Later I will can telling you if you are in the correct or if I'm a wrong.

Please, May you give me the website address.?

Exactly you have gave in the nail.

Me da placer (me complace) informarle a Ud. que la clase a la que asiste su niño tomará parte en el Programa Nacional de Incentivos.

That is the best way to translate the oration.

Congratulation.

Me place el informar a Ud. que la clase a la que atiende su niño participará en el Programa Nacional de Incentivo
I would use
"Me place informarle a Ud. que la clase a la que atiende su niño participará en el Programa Nacional de Incentivo"
or
"Me place el informarle a Ud. que la clase a la que atiende su niño participará en el Programa Nacional de Incentivo"

but not so "el informar a Ud"
Saludos :D