Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r12.4-175

Chapter 49. Extensible Markup Language (XML)

itstool-2.0.7

Introduction to itstool

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).

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Itstool Dependencies

Required

docbook-xml-4.5 and lxml-6.0.1

Installation of itstool

First, apply a patch to use lxml-6.0.1 for handling the XML files instead of the deprecated (disabled by default) Python module from libxml2-2.15.0: 

patch -Np1 -i ../itstool-2.0.7-lxml-1.patch

Install itstool by running the following commands: 

PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: python3 tests/run_tests.py.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: itstool
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/itstool

Short Descriptions

itstool

is used to create translated XML files