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/