Clytie Siddall wrote
Question: will Pootle be able to handle an XLIFF based workflow ?
Pootling will, on its 1.0 version, about one year from now. Handling
process is quite a complex issue, as it requires assigning roles to
translators, reviewers and approvers, as well as rights, different
interfaces, etc. It also requires extension of the XLIFF format, as the
present functionalities are not sufficient.
At the same time, it will really improve the localisation process,
reducing the amount of work.
The main translation projects have talked about XLIFF as the format of
the future. It's a big change, and won't occur overnight. After all,
KDE has only just started supporting gettext plurals. ;)
In a sense, everyone is waiting for someone else to do something about
it. Pootle sets a good example: once it has an effective XLIFF base,
the projects using it will be able to trial using XLIFF. But as you
would know, it's also a matter of contributed time and effort. I'm
going to trial XLIFF for OpenOffice.org on Pootle, then I will have
some feedback for the other projects.
Hristo said:
Can you tell me good editors for this translation format. For Linux and
Windows.
This is the main issue, at the end it is important to have XLIFF native
editors, so that all work internally is done with XLIFF-like structures
that will be well prepared to handle process an everything else that
XLIFF permits. KBabel is a great editor, but I believe it would take a
lot of work to rebuild it internally for this purpose. This is why we
started on Pootling last year, to create a solid open source
localisation editor which would be able to manage all features of XLIFF,
and be easily extendable.
For free software, I know the Kbabel developers have been working on
XLIFF, and the Pootling offline editor (Javier, is it beta yet?) is
based on XLIFF. Both of those are Linux and Windows editors.
We will be releasing 0.2 RC2 at the end of this month. It works on both
Windows and Linux (it is written in Python using Qt). Our plan is to
integrate the OpenOffice filters and tests as part of the application
All the professional translation editors are based on/support XLIFF
(e.g. Heartsome, Trados). I think the Lite version of the Heartsome
XLIFF editor is free.
Heartsome is a good editor.
Javier
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