SYNOPSIS

use Publican::Translate;
my $po = Publican::Translate->new();
$po->update_pot();
$po->update_po({ langs => 'fr-FR,de-DE' });
$po->update_po({ langs => 'all' });
$po->merge_xml({ lang => 'fr-FR' });

DESCRIPTION

Creates, updates and merges POT and PO files for Publican projects.

INTERFACE

new

Create a new Publican::Translate object.

trans_drop

Snapshot the source to give translation a stable base.

update_pot

Update the pot files

po2xml

Merge XML and PO into a translated XML file.

update_po

Update the PO files using internal process or msgmerge

merge_po

Merge updated POT files in to existing PO files.

match_strings

Compare 2 strings and return how closely they match.

Returns a vlaue between 0 and 1, weighted for string length.

update_po_all

Update the PO files for all languages

get_msgs

Get the strings to translate from an XML::TreeBuilder object

merge_msgs

Merge translations in to XML

translate

Replace strings with translated strings.

print_msgs

Print the translation strings in an XML::TreeBuilder object to a POT file

header

Returns a valid PO header string.

detag

Format a string for use in a PO file.

po_report

Generate translation statistics for the supplied language.

DIAGNOSTICS

"unknown args %s"

All subs with named parameters will return this error when unexpected named arguments are provided.

"%s is a required argument"

Any sub with a mandatory parameter will return this error if the parameter is undef.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Publican requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Carp version Publican File::Path Term::ANSIColor DateTime Locale::PO XML::TreeBuilder String::Similarity

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

AUTHOR

Jeff Fearn "<[email protected]>"