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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Open Language Tools
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| caption                = 
| collapsible            = 
| author                 = [[Sun Microsystems]]
| developer              = Sun Microsystems
| released               = {{start date|2006|09|11}}
| discontinued           = 
| latest release version = 1.3.1
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|2010|03|15}}
| latest preview version = 1.4.0
| latest preview date    = {{start date and age|2010|06|23}}
| programming language   = [[Java (programming language)|Java]]
| operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]
| platform               = Java
| size                   = 30MB
| language               = Multilingual
| genre                  = [[Computer-assisted translation]]
| license                = [[Common Development and Distribution License|CDDL]]
| website                = {{URL|http://open-language-tools.java.net/}}
}}

'''Open Language Tools''' is a [[Java (programming language)|Java]] project released by [[Sun Microsystems]] under the terms of Sun's [[CDDL]] (a [[GPL]]-incompatible [[free software license]]).<ref>[http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses Free Software Foundation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216005913/http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html |date=2008-12-16 }} List of GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses</ref>

Open Language Tools are intended for people who are involved in translation of software and documentation into different natural languages ([[Language localisation|localisation]] engineers, translators, etc.). They are based around common localisation industry standard file formats such as [[XLIFF]] and [[Translation Memory eXchange|TMX]].

Open Language Tools consist of the '''XLIFF Filters''' designed to convert different source file formats to [[XLIFF]] and the '''XLIFF Translation Editor''' which is designed to read and edit [[XLIFF]] files. They are written in [[Java (programming language)|Java]] and run on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS]], or [[Linux]] as long as [[Java Runtime Environment|Java J2RE]] (at least 1.4.2) is installed.

==Workflow==

===XLIFF Filters===
This is an application designed to convert different source file formats to an [[XLIFF]] format. It is currently based around the [[XLIFF]] 1.0 specification. The conversion is simple. Launch the filters, drag and drop a source file on the application, and the file will be converted to a [[XLIFF|.xlz]] file in the same directory as the source file. 
What basically happens is that the filter:
# reads and parses the source file,
# separates the translatable portions of the text from the non-translatable portions by breaking the file into blocks
# further segments the translatable blocks into smaller sections, typically sentences, and
# writes the [[XLIFF]] file ([[XLIFF|.xlf]]) and the skeleton file (.skl) which are further bundled within a zip archive with the [[XLIFF|.xlz]] extension.

===XLIFF Translation Editor===
This is an application which is made for translating the contents of [[XLIFF]] files. As the [[XLIFF]] format itself is quite complex and not very user friendly (especially to people not familiar with XML), XLIFF Translation Editor was developed to make the translation and editing much more feasible. Upon opening it shows the user two major panes with the source and target language. The text is segmented and marked – whether it is translated or untranslated, whether it has any 100% matches or fuzzy translations suggested from other applications that may have processed the [[XLIFF]] file in the past. The source and target segments are shown in order to give the translator the full context and they are directly editable.

Initially, the translator creates a Project into which either an [[XLIFF|.xlf]] or [[XLIFF|.xlz]] files are inserted. The central part of the editor is the “Mini-TM”, a simple file-based database with all source and target segments from the current project, which is being automatically updated. As soon as the translator starts translating a segment which has already been translated, the target segment is automatically inserted based on the Mini-TM. Similarly, the Mini-TM suggests fuzzy matches. Segments can be marked as approved, reviewed, unreviewed, problematic, Mini-TM translations or user translations. There is also a mechanism to display notes from the source documents (typically from formats like [[GNU gettext|.po files]] or from other translators).

There is a back-conversion tool integrated into the editor which converts the [[XLIFF]] files to their original format. For each [[XLIFF]] file, it is possible to create a translation memory ([[Translation Memory eXchange|TMX]]) file, which can be later used to update the central translation database.

==Supported files==

===Documentation file types===
*[[HTML]]
*[[DocBook]] SGML 
*[[JavaServer Pages|JSP]]
*[[XML]] (generic - needs a configuration file for each XML type) 
*[[OpenOffice.org]]: sxw, sxc, sxi 
*[[OpenDocument|Open Document Format]]: odw, odc, odi 
*[[Plain text]]

===Software file types===
*[[GNU gettext|PO (gettext)]]
*Msg/tmsg (catgets) 
*[[.properties|Java .properties]]
*[[Java resource bundle|Java ResourceBundle]]
*Mozilla .DTD resource files

==See also==
*[[Translation memory]]
*[[Computer-assisted translation]]
*[[Office Open XML software]]
*[[OpenDocument software]]
*[[OmegaT]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://open-language-tools.java.net Open Language Tools] - Official Open Language Tools website
*[https://java.net/projects/open-language-tools/downloads Open Language Tools download] – Download Open Language Tools
*[http://bbvvcc.com Free Language Tools] – Free Language tools of Websites
*[http://java.net/projects/open-language-tools/sources/svn/content/trunk/doc/user_doc/OLT_XLIFF_Translation_Editor_Manual.pdf User's Manual to XLIFF Translation Editor]
*[http://blogs.sun.com/timf/resource/editor-demo.html XLIFF Translation Editor demo]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070614003948/https://open-language-tools.dev.java.net/#help Help to improve Open Language Tools]

[[Category:Software-localization tools]]
[[Category:Free software programmed in Java (programming language)]]
[[Category:Computer-assisted translation software programmed in Java]]