xliff2strings

A command line tool to generate .strings and .stringdict files from .xliff file

Prerequisites

You exported localizations from XCode, used 3rd party service (or dedicated person) to update your translations and XCode refuses to import your xliff correctly? I know that pain, bro! That's why I created this tool so that you can just replace your files with new ones!

It uses Swift Package Manager and should be able to target 10.10 and later.

Installing

Download this project.
Run swift build
Grab binary from .build/x86_64-apple-macosx10.10/debug/xliff2strings
Run

Notes and Warnings

stringsdict generator uses some magic and hardcoded values since xliff does not contain all needed information. This includes following keys:

Key	Value
NSStringFormatSpecTypeKey	NSStringPluralRuleType
NSStringFormatValueTypeKey	d

Xcloc

Directory Layout

fr.xcloc
├── Localized Contents
│   └── fr.xliff
├── Notes
├── Source Contents
│   └── en.lproj
│       ├── LocalCheck-InfoPlist.strings
│       └── Localizable.strings
└── contents.json

content.json

{
  "developmentRegion" : "en",
  "project" : "LocalCheck.xcodeproj",
  "targetLocale" : "fr",
  "toolInfo" : {
    "toolBuildNumber" : "13C90",
    "toolID" : "com.apple.dt.xcode",
    "toolName" : "Xcode",
    "toolVersion" : "13.2"
  },
  "version" : "1.0"
}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

Ivan Kolesnik - The author of the original project
Swift ArgumentParser - Apple library for Swift CLI apps
XMLCoder - wonderful library that did all heavy XML parsing for me

wildthink / xliff2strings