[xliff-tools] Eviltrans - Open source transilation suite

[Asgeir Frimannsson]

Hi Fredrik,

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:36, Fredrik Corneliusson wrote:
> Hi, I just want to let you know of a project me and a friend are
> working on as we share some common ground.
> The project is an open source translation suite that aims to fill the
> current void in open source tools when it comes to commercial
> counterparts such as Trados.
> It's still in an early stage and what we have now is a Xliff Editor
> (just about usable) written by me and a translation memory with fuzzy
> matching written by Fredrik Estreen.

This is good news! Tried out your editor on my Linux box, and it's a good 
start. A bit mix of Swedish and English here and there, but heck, I 
understand Swedish!

Didn't get your TM running though, but will give it a new shot over the 
weekend. (Had some problems with paths etc)

> What we need is XLIFF and TMX filters, testers, users developers,
> luxury cars and  world peace, etc ;-)

We're working on filters :) 

If you're after python-based filters that can integrate nicely with your 
editor, you might be interested in the GPL'ed PO filters from 
http://translate.sourceforge.net/ 
(http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/translate/src/translate/convert/) They 
have parsers and PO converters for lots of file formats, and these shouldn't 
be to hard to modify to become XLIFF converters. 

> The working name is Eviltrans and you can find it here:
> http://eviltrans.sourceforge.net/
>
> If you want to take it for a spin please download the zip package and
> avoid the CVS for now as it's full of broken stuff that will be
> flushed soon. The TM Engine is probably going to see some interesting
> stuff added later this week.
>

Let me know if you guys are interested in somewhat linking this project in 
with the xliff-tools project. This project's goal is to overall implement 
XLIFF support in open source localisation. I'll anyway add a link to this 
project in the 'Resources' section in our wiki.

cheers,
asgeir