HTML Translation:Technology

Translation Management System

The Pootle translation management system (TMS) was used extensively through the project. A TMS allows a translation manager to manage the process and rights of the translators. Pootle was developed by Translate.org.za to facilitate distributed translation. It now forms part of the WordForge project where it is being expanded to allow better process management and control.

Translation Toolkit

The Translate Toolkit allows us to convert various source texts (HTML, wiki, etc) into standard file formats such as Gettext PO and XLIFF (a translation interchange format). The key to good translation is to divorce translators from the layout, in the same way that content is divorced from layout in the HTML and CSS paradigm. Thus the toolkit allows us to take raw HTML and extract the textual content. This content is then translated and managed using Pootle and finally the translations plus the original English are combined to create the translated content.