ITSTOOL(1)ITSTOOL(1)NAMEitstool - convert between XML and PO using ITS
SYNOPSISitstool [OPTIONS] [XMLFILES]
itstool-m <MOFILE> [OPTIONS] [XMLFILES]
DESCRIPTIONitstool 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, gener‐
ate 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
Extracting
-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 mul‐
tiple times)
AUTHOR
Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org>
SEE ALSO
More documentation for itstool is maintained online. For
more information, see:
http://itstool.org/documentation/
itstool 1.2.0 May 2011 ITSTOOL(1)
