ITSTOOL(1)

NAME
itstool - convert between XML and PO using ITS

SYNOPSIS
itstool [OPTIONS] XMLFILES...
itstool -m <MOFILE> [OPTIONS] XMLFILES...
itstool -j <XMLFILE> [OPTIONS] MOFILES...

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 XMLFILES and output them to OUT.pot:

itstool -o OUT.pot XMLFILES

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 XMLFILES

You can also create a single multilingual XML output file using an input XML file and a set of MO files:

itstool -j FILE.xml -o OUT.xml MOFILES

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. You can disable built-in rules by passing the -n option.

OPTIONS

  Extracting

-o OUT.pot
--out OUT.pot
    output PO template to the file OUT.pot

  Merging

-m MOFILE XMLFILES
--merge MOFILE XMLFILES
    merge from an MO file MOFILE and output translated XML files for source XMLFILES

-l LANG
--lang LANG
    explicitly set the language code output to XML

-o OUT
--out OUT
    output XML files in the directory OUT

  Joining

-j MLIFILE MOFILES
--join XMLFILE MOFILES
    join translations from MOFILES into a multilingual file based on source XMLFILE

-o OUT.xml
--out OUT.xml
    output to the XML file OUT.xml

  Common

-i ITS
--its ITS
    load the ITS rules in the file ITS (can specify multiple times)

-n
--no-builtins
    do not apply the built-in ITS rules that ship with itstool

-s
--strict
    exit with error when PO files contain broken XML

-d
--load-dtd
    load external DTDs used by input XML files

-k
--keep-entities
    keep entity references unexpanded in PO files

-p NAME VALUE
--param NAME VALUE
    define ITS parameter NAME to the value VALUE (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/