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ODF-XLIFF starts working!

Submitted by winterstream on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 11:17
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We have just completed two new tools which will make the translation of ODF files a breeze. The tools are being developed in a branch the trunk of the Translate Toolkit (located at https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/branches/translate/odf-xliff-first-try https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/trunk).

odf2xliff extracts all translatable strings from an ODT file and stores the result as an XLIFF file. For example, to extract all strings from a file named "english_file.odt" into a an XLIFF file named "english_français.xlf", the following is executed:

odf2xliff english_file.odt english_français.xlf
Diagram showing the flow of odf2xliff

xliff2odf takes a source ODF and an XLIFF file and creates a target ODT file which matches the layout of the source ODF file, but replaces the text of the source ODF file with the translations in the XLIFF file.

xliff2odf -t english_file.odt english_français.xlf fichier_français.odt
Diagram showing the flow of xliff2odf

The -t flag used to specify the source ODF file (english_file.odt) for xliff2odf tells xliff2odf that the source ODF file a template.

Getting and running the tools

You can download the branch source either from our official Subversion repository:

svn co https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/trunk

All of the interesting code is under storage/xml_extract.

You can also get it from my the toolkit's git mirror:

git clone git://github.com/winterstream/translate.git
git clone git://github.com/translateorgza/translate.git

The git branch name is odf-xliff-first-try.

Running the toolkit directly from source

We have instructions on our wiki.

Going forward

We are working with Itaapy to create a "standard" for representing ODF in XLIFF. Our documentation is at http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/developers/projects/odf.

Itaapy has done a lot of work in teasing out the ODF elements which should be translated. The work is part of their framework itools, which can be cloned with:

git clone git://hforge.org/itools.git

Updates

Changed the URLs to reflect that the ODF-XLIFF project is now located in the trunk (the branch will no longer be developed).