OpenDocument Format

This page summarises the support for the OpenDocument format (ODF) in the Translate Toolkit. This includes the odf2xliff and xliff2odf converters, and the odf2po and po2odf converters.

The converters read the standard ODF package XML members and embedded ODF subdocuments declared in META-INF/manifest.xml. Missing optional metadata or styles members are accepted. Package output preserves member metadata and writes the uncompressed mimetype member first as required by ODF.

Our support is implemented to classify tags as not containing translatable text, or as being inline tags inside translatable tags. This approach means that new fields added in future versions will automatically be seen as translatable and should still be extracted successfully, even if the currently released versions of the Translate Toolkit are not aware of their existence.

• Currently used and classified tags

More complex tag uses are still needed to extract 100% correctly in some complex cases. Following issues are known:

• in spreadsheets you need to put the translation in both the value attribute and the p tag

• in spreadsheets only extract strings from cells with type="string"

• we don’t seem to be extracting user defined metadata

• <g> isn’t cloneable (see https://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/v1.2/os/xliff-core.html#clone)