NAME¶
itstool - convert between XML and PO using ITS
SYNOPSIS¶
itstool [OPTIONS] [XMLFILES]
itstool
-m <MOFILE> [OPTIONS] [XMLFILES]
DESCRIPTION¶
itstool extracts messages from XML files and outputs PO template files,
then merges translations from MO files to create translated XML files. It
determines what to translate and how to chunk it into messages using the W3C
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS).
To extract messages from XML files
FILES and output them to
OUT.pot:
itstool -o OUT.pot FILES
After merging with existing translations or translating strings, generate an MO
file with
msgfmt(1), then output translated files to the directory
DIR:
itstool -m OUT.mo -o DIR FILES
ITS definitions are loaded from the built-in rules, rules embedded in the source
XML files, files passed with the
-i option, and ITS attributes in the
source XML files. Later definitions take precedence.
OPTIONS¶
- -o FILE
- --out=FILE
- output PO template to the file OUT
Merging¶
- -m FILE
- --merge=FILE
- merge from an MO file FILE and output XML files
- -l LANG
- --lang=LANG
- explicitly set the language code output to XML
- -o FILE
- --out=FILE
- output XML files in the directory OUT
Common¶
- -i ITS
- --its=ITS
- load the ITS rules in the file ITS (can specify multiple
times)
AUTHOR¶
Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org>
SEE ALSO¶
More documentation for
itstool is maintained online. For more
information, see:
- http://itstool.org/documentation/
