Re: [docbook-apps] Translation/i18n of DocBook/XML?

[Markus Schütz <markus.schuetz@datadax.de>]

Hi,

if you do not insist on a pure open source tool chain, the XLIFF editor 
by Heartsome (www.heartsome.net resp. 
http://www.heartsome.net/EN/xlfedit.html) might be a solution.
XLIFF editor is able to convert a DocBook XML document into XLIFF 
(another XML vocabulary hosted by OASIS - just like DocBook - which 
serves for localization purposes) and helps you translating the source 
files into any language you want. It also features a translation memory 
to recycle existing translation segments, thus reducing the translation 
effort considerably. In contrast to other commercial tools such as 
TRADOS or TRANSIT, it is a Java application and should run as well under 
Linux.
I don't know whether there are any open source tools for translation 
purposes that serve equally well; at least I don't no any open source 
tool that features translation memories and fuzzy search. Does anybody 
else on the list know any of them?

Regards,
Markus Schütz

Michael Wiedmann escribió:

>[ Posting in behalf of Wolfgang Borgert <debacle@debian.org> who has
>  problems posting to the list ]
>
>Hi,
>
>what is the ultimative way to translate DocBook/XML
>documents into other languages?  I know that there were some
>discussions two years ago, but I don't know the outcome.  Does
>anybody know the following tools?
>
>- doc-i18n-tool(?)
>
>- intltool
>
>- poxml/xml2pot
>
>What I like to have is something gettextish:
>
>DocBook/XML(en) -> .pot
>
>and
>DocBook/XML(en) + {de,fr,es}.po -> DocBook/XML(de/fr/es)
>
>Or similar...  I would like to avoid the use of autoconf, KDE,
>or any huge toolchain, if that's possible.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Cheers, W. Borgert
>
>  
>