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.TH XML2POT 1 "March 19, 2005"
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.SH NAME
xml2pot \- creates a PO-template file from a DocBook XML file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xml2pot
.I original-XML
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBxml2pot\fP is a command-line tool that produces a gettext message
template file from the DocBook XML file \fIoriginal-XML\fP.
The template file is sent to standard output.
.PP
The resulting template file can be used to create gettext message files
(PO-files) for a variety of languages.  These can then be used in conjunction
with
.BR po2xml (1)
to translate the original XML file into these other languages.
.PP
This utility is part of the TDE Software Development Kit.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR po2xml (1),
.BR split2po (1),
.BR swappo (1),
.BR transxx (1).
.SH AUTHOR
The PO-XML tools were written by Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org> and
Peter Wells <pete@yamuna.demon.co.uk>.
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This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).