PoEdit and XML-attributes

Question

I am trying to get localization running under windows by using poedit. So far everything is fine. Unfortunately I do have XML-files which require some attributes to be translated. Example:

<CMD ID="MK">
    <SETUP_NAME NAME="Set active setting">
    <TAG_NAME>TAG_SET_ACTIVE_SETTING</TAG_NAME>
        <TAG_ID>0241</TAG_ID>
        <TAG_TYPE>FORMAT_SHORT</TAG_TYPE>
            <NO_OF_ELEMENTS>1</NO_OF_ELEMENTS>
            <ELEMENT>
                <VAL_TYPE>word</VAL_TYPE>
                <DESCRIPTION>The currently used setting</DESCRIPTION>
                <MIN_VAL>1</MIN_VAL>
                <MAX_VAL>19</MAX_VAL>
            </ELEMENT>
            <TAG_AVAILABLE>true</TAG_AVAILABLE>
        </SETUP_NAME>

I want to translate the attribute content of NAME of the tag SETUP_NAME. I could not figure out how to get this running. Extracting the content of the tags works fine.

Any help is appreciated!

Regards,

Zett

Answer 1

You can use the xgettext -a, --extract-all flag to extract all quoted strings in your XML file.

In POEdit, create a new parser that looks for XML files:

Under Preferences, go to the Parsers tab and hit New. Then enter:

Language:

XML

List of extensions separated by semicolons:

*.xml

Parser command:

xgettext -LC --extract-all -o %o %C %F

An item in keywords list: - leave empty

Item in input files list:

%f

source code charset:

--from-code=%c

And hit OK.

Make sure you add the path where your XML lives to you PO file propeties and you should be able to run Catalogue > Update from sources

This should forcefully extract any quoted strings into your PO file.