On 9 août 07, at 17:17, Clytie Siddall wrote:
There are a number of free-software translation tools already
available for XLIFF [2], and Pootle is based on XLIFF. My offline
editor, LocFactoryEditor, is also based on XLIFF: I expect
Pootling, the Wordforge offline editor, is as well.
The problem with Pootle is that is converts XLIFF from PO.
My understanding is that the original strings are stored in XML, they
are converted to a non XML format (SDF) loosing there all their XML
"abilities", then converted to PO and then to XLIFF, leading to a
mess of non encapsulated code sequences in the translation strings.
Similarly, the TMX that we were sent were "false" TMX based on the
SDF files.
It would be better if the XLIFF and TMX directly came directly from
the original XML format. That we we'd have something extremely useful.
The current process (conversion through PO) removes all the benefit
one could have from working with and XML based format.
Jean-Christophe
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