The future of OOo localization is clearly XLIFF, and we are working on
it. Even if they are not yet part of the Translate Toolkit
documentation, sometime ago, Dwayne wrote filters to translate directly
fron SDF to XLIFF and back. Now the Pootling team is working on testing
and improving these tools, adding a xliffupgrade tool that will allow
upgrades from XLIFF to new sets of XLIFF files. In about a month we will
probably feel safe enough to release the whole cycle in stable format,
together with Pootling 0.2 or Pootling 0.2.1
Pootling is being specially designed to get the most out of XLIFF files.
The present version gives direct information about glossary to be used,
signaling which words need to be considered as terminology, and their
translation (if available). It also uses translation memory in its own
format and in standard formats (TMX).
It attempts to give the highest level of aid while being package
independent (e.g. not knowledgeable about OpenOffice)... which means
that the intelligence must be in the filters. OpenOffice has multiple
variable formats, and it is nice that the program recognises them as
units of text that need to be replicated exactly at the target. XLIFF
uses for this the <mrk> in-line tag. The introduction of the tags must
me done by the filters SDF to XLIFF. Translation memory must learn to
deal with tags.
Independently of which tools are being used, I am glad to hear agreement
on the fact that the future of OOo localization is XLIFF.
Javier
Jean-Christophe Helary wrote
On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
So I'm not talking about converting between SDF, PO and XLIFF, or
between any combination of the three. I'm talking about using XLIFF
as the base translation format for OpenOffice.org.
This is what I suggested in a mail here at the beginning of July. But
currently all the XLIFF conversion have to go through the SDF->PO
thing first.
The original help files are in XML so converting them directly to
XLIFF should be way easier (for the translator but also for the
processors as well) than going through the current SDF->PO thing.
People who still want to do PO will be able to do so with the
conversions from XLIFF.
Jean-Christophe
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