File2XLIFF4j / News: Recent posts

Today's release supports the conversion of Windows RC files to/from XLIFF. (Support of VERSIONINFO's VarFileInfo BLOCK [containing information on language and encoding] and the code_page pragma are not yet supported.)

Today's release includes an executable GUI version of file2xliff4j. If you are converting something other than Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you ought to be able to double-click on that jar file and convert to XLIFF. (If the conversion involves Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you will need to first start OpenOffice.org listening in the background.)

Exporters for HTML, XML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODS, ODT, ODP and RTF have been modified to give an order of magnitude (or more) speed improvement.

Initial pre-alpha release of PDF converters.

The ODF importer now handles unlimited nesting of text:p elements in content.xml; it also finds translatable text in styles.xml.

All importers now support sentence segmentation.

Added import/export of generic XML files.

Replaced lt:core tags (in source and target elements) with XLIFF spec-compliant mrk elements (with mtype="x-coretext" attribute).

Fix numerous bugs

This release has a rewritten ODF Handler to correctly parse Word documents (imported by OOo), regardless of the level of nesting of text:p elements. It also fixes numerous export and other bugs and adds format detection, etc.

Today's release adds support for PowerPoint and FrameMaker's Maker Interchange Format (MIF).

The June 16 release supports conversion of Excel spreadsheets and RTF to and from XLIFF. Enjoy!

May saw a new release of file2xliff4j, reimplemented to support conversion of HTML and Word documents (as well as OpenOffice.org text documents) to and from XLIFF. The Word conversions use OpenOffice.org to convert to and from OpenDocument format. The skeleton files are much more robust than in the past. We also moved our source control from CVS to Subversion, which allowed us to remove numerous orphaned (empty) directories in the source tree. Check us out!

We've been busy even if things have been a little quite. There is a UML diagram available (created with the excellent Umbrello program) at http://file2xliff4j.sourceforge.net/File2XLIFF4j.png and we've found some typo bugs and cleaned those up. We are working on adding XML in the Basic Converter and improve cross-platform building from source.

We have added Alpha2 which has source code and and updated jar. We are still soliciting feedback on direction and working on fine tuning the project to included code in the CVS repository and better documentation. Stay tuned.

Our release was missing a few things. One is the Word and Excel support using the excellent Apache-Jackarta POI project. Also, the javadocs were not included in our JAR file. You can browse the javadocs from our Home Page for now.

As we are just getting started with this project we would love feedback and input as to where the community would like to see this go. I for one would love to see this work with OOo so that all files are ready for localization out of the box. Open Document is definitely a file type we need to add. Please send us your input.

We are happy to announce the alpha release of File2XLIFF4j. This is a .jar file with corresponding javadocs available from the Homepage. We will be releasing source soon. If you have translation/localization projects then you should really consider using XLIFF and this is a great place to start converting your texts to the XLIFF standard.