[Kbabel] create Po file from html

Stanislav Visnovsky visnovsky@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz
Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:29:01 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Dwayne Bailey wrote:

> > My problem now is:
> > 1. how do I create PO files from my german html files?
> 
> The PO format is for translation of application software not websites. 
> I have not seen any work to take html 2 po - although that would be 
> usefull.  The author of poxml tools says that HTML is too complex for 
> that tool to be used.  Ny too complex I mean that they are not 
> standardised enough to allow easy manipulation and output in PO format.
> 
> Localising websites is a noble task but I haven't seen any tools that 
> make it easy.

IIRC newer versions of PHP support translation using gettext (if you use 
PHP of course :-). 

Also, you can check the Po4a project at 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/po4a
But it seems like they do not support HTML yet :-(

Stanislav