ITSTOOL(1) General Commands Manual ITSTOOL(1)

itstool - convert between XML and PO using ITS

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

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.

output PO template to the file OUT.pot

merge from an MO file MOFILE and output translated XML files for source XMLFILES
explicitly set the language code output to XML
output XML files in the directory OUT

join translations from MOFILES into a multilingual file based on source XMLFILE
output to the XML file OUT.xml

load the ITS rules in the file ITS (can specify multiple times)
do not apply the built-in ITS rules that ship with itstool
exit with error when PO files contain broken XML
load external DTDs used by input XML files
keep entity references unexpanded in PO files
define ITS parameter NAME to the value VALUE (can specify multiple times)

Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org>

More documentation for itstool is maintained online. For more information, see:

http://itstool.org/documentation/

December 2013 itstool 2.0.7