wxl2po

Converts WiX Localization (.wxl) files to Gettext PO format.

Usage

wxl2po [options] <wxl> <po>
po2wxl [options] <po> <wxl> [-t <base-wxl>]

Where:

<wxl>

is a valid .wxl file or directory of those files

<po>

is a directory of PO or POT files

<base-wxl>

is a template or the original file before translation. Required for roundtrips to preserve non-translatable data.

Options (wxl2po):

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--manpage

output a manpage based on the help

--progress=PROGRESS

show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose

--errorlevel=ERRORLEVEL

show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback

-i INPUT, --input=INPUT

read from INPUT in wxl format

-x EXCLUDE, --exclude=EXCLUDE

exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths

-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT

write to OUTPUT in po, pot formats

-S, --timestamp

skip conversion if the output file has newer timestamp

Options (po2wxl):

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--manpage

output a manpage based on the help

--progress=PROGRESS

show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose

--errorlevel=ERRORLEVEL

show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback

-i INPUT, --input=INPUT

read from INPUT in po, pot formats

-x EXCLUDE, --exclude=EXCLUDE

exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths

-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT

write to OUTPUT in wxl format

-t TEMPLATE, --template=TEMPLATE

read from TEMPLATE in wxl format

-S, --timestamp

skip conversion if the output file has newer timestamp

Formats Supported

Check the WXL format document for details of what is supported.

Examples

This example shows a roundtrip of WXL translations.

First create a set of POT files:

wxl2po -P lang/en pot/

All .wxl files found in lang/en are converted to Gettext POT files and placed in the pot/ directory.

To recover existing translations:

wxl2po -t lang/en lang/de po-de/

Using the English WXL files in lang/en and existing German translations in lang/de, create PO files in po-de/ with the recovered translations.

Once translated, convert back:

po2wxl -t lang/en po-de/ lang/de

Translations from po-de/ are applied to template files in lang/en and the result is written to lang/de.