Back-Conversion to PO!?
I did not know about that ... You're of course absolutely right about losing
everything.
Reminds me of a book we are writing - they insist on the txt format ("... so
that we can do it with Latex...")
Sigh
Regards
Vito
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Datum: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:28:20 +0900
Von: Jean-Christophe Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [qa-dev] switching to XLIFF
> Vito,
>
> See my reply to Clytie.
>
> The problem with using XLIFF is not a tool problem, but merely a
> conversion problem. The intermediate conversion to PO with the
> translate-toolkit tools removes all the benefit from working with an
> XML based format.
>
> Also OmegaT is not the best way to work with XLIFF currently. OLT is
> cumbersome and not easy to use but as far as XLIFF 1.0 is concerned
> it does the job properly. For OmegaT to be efficient in this process,
> it would be necessary that OOo adopts a TMX based localization
> process: all the legacy versions are stored as TMX and all the
> translations do _not_ take place on diffs but on the whole source.
> That way it would be trivial to generate updated translations without
> ever leaving an XML workflow.
>
> The intermediate SDF conversion makes this very difficult to happen
> as well as the second conversion to PO.
>
> Jean-Christophe
>
> On 9 août 07, at 19:37, Vito Smolej wrote:
>
> > Can I suggest OmegaT in this context?
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/omegat
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Vito
>
> > Von: "Christian Lohmaier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> German-lang team already uses xliff for the translation work
> >> (but one of the main reasons was as well, that there is a java-based
> >> editor
> >> that can be used on whatever platform (share TM, reviews,...)
> >>
> >> https://open-language-tools.dev.java.net/editor/about-xliff-
> >> editor.html
>
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