[xliff-tools] xml to xliff

[Asgeir Frimannsson]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:01, Fredrik Corneliusson wrote:
> Hi,
> Any plans to do a XML to XLIFF filter? This is would be very useful
> for documentation localization.

I personally don't have any concrete plans of implementing a XML filter within 
the next 2 months. At the moment I'm working on a way of 'xliffizing' (as 
opposed to gettextize) autoconf based build systems, so that the persistent 
stored localisation format is XLIFF not PO (but using PO as an intermediate 
format). 

Hopefully SUN will release their filters soon :)

In developing filters for Docbook XML and SGML, what's interesting to see is 
if we can at the same time find a way of leveraging all the existing 
translations out there stored in PO Compendiums. 

Also, in developing filters for XML based formats, it might be a good design 
decition to develop generic XML filters, with configuration files for each 
target file format specifying which elelments and attributes goes for 
localisation (I think this is the way e.g. Heartsome and Sun does it)..

cheers,
asgeir