json2xliff

a utility tool to convert json translation files into xliff translation files, and back

Usage

xliff2json

The tool uses the srcLang and trgLang attributes of the xliff 2.0 file to assess how to transpile into json flat translation file. Please make sure the arguments to the tool match the xliff file. See also the XSD specification: ./specifications/xliff_core_2.0.xsd . See usage with: yarn json2xliff -h.

The json file will be created in the current working directory with the provided tag and target language. If the file already exists, the tool throws an error.

The tool automatically detects if the XLIFF file has version 2.0, and uses the correct mapper to convert the texts. If it is not 2.0, it assumes the XLIFF file is compliant with version 1.2 and uses another adapter. Since XLIFF files contains the version of the schema used, using the --xliff1 flag is not necessary.

With the --stdout / -o flag, you can output to stdout and pipe into a tool like jq to format the json string. A further pipe into pbcopy puts the text into the clipboard, ready to be pasted where you need it. e.g. yarn json2xliff .... --stdout | jq . | pbcopy.

yarn json2xliff --srcLang "de-CH" \
                --trgLang "fr-CH" \
                --tag "v1.5.1" \
                --xliff fixtures/uneven_example_v1.5.0_de-CH.xlf \
                --stdout

yarn json2xliff --srcLang "fr-CH" \
                --trgLang "de-CH" \
                --tag "v1.5.1" \
                --xliff fixtures/uneven_example_v1.5.0_fr-CH.xlf \
                --stdout

The output can be sorted and beautified with the flags --sort and --beautify.

json2xliff

XLIFF translation files are XML bitext file containing both the source language texts, as well as the target language texts if they exists (in case of a translation reviews, or completion of new translations, for example). See the wikipedia page. See usage: yarn json2xliff -h.

The XLIFF 2.0 file will be created in the current working directory with the provided tag and target language. If the file already exists, the tool throws an error.

This tool defaults to XLIFF 2.0 . If you need to target version 1.2, you may do so by adding the flag --xliff1, which defaults to false (i.e. XLIFF 2.0).

With the --stdout / -o flag, you can output to stdout and pipe into a tool like xq to format the XML string. A further pipe into pbcopy puts the text into the clipboard, ready to be pasted where you need it. e.g. yarn json2xliff .... --stdout | xq | pbcopy.

yarn json2xliff --srcLang "de-CH" \
                --trgLang "fr-CH" \
                --srcJson fixtures/uneven_example_de.json \
                --trgJson fixtures/uneven_example_fr.json \
                --tag "v1.3.2" \
                --stdout

The output can be sorted and beautified with the flags --sort and --beautify.

web app and docker / containers

For convenience purpose where nodejs is not available, the tool is also packaged as a Docker container. Before version 1.0.0, the container wraps the command line tool, please read the relevant README.md file.

Starting with version 1.0.0, a webapp packages the functionality of the command line tool. The webapp does not do anything server side: relevant parts of the conversion logic has been extracted and packaged with Browserify in order to run in the browser: you can convert your files in your browser directly, without sending data to the cloud.

Usage: yarn serve or yarn node server.js. By default, the app is served on port 3000: http://localhost:3000.

Using Docker

It was tested with Podman.

# pull the image
podman pull registry.gitlab.com/leading-works/floss/json2xliff

podman run --interactive --rm registry.gitlab.com/leading-works/floss/json2xliff:latest

Please also note, the example assumes you want to run a transient container and remove it after use (--interactive --rm), you may want to keep it on your disk with a name (e.g. --name json2xliff) and reuse it. This may be useful if your processes regularly require submitting translations for review, for example.

Validating against the XSD schema

For practical reasons and limitations, no validation is provided by this tool. You may want to validate your XLIFF 2.0 files against this online validator.

An offline solution may be done using OpenXLIFF.

License

See LICENSE. This project is meant to be a free, libre and open source software with the GPLv3 license.

Contribute

This project has been done pro bono and open sourced with a GPLv3 license. We believe that translating apps should be easy and come early in projects.

If this project could help you, please consider donating to further enable open source development.

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