• Migrates XLIFF files from version 1.0 to 1.2
• Generates XLIFF files in defined languages
• Generates XLIFF files in defined languages with automatic translation via Deepl
• Export XLIFF Files in csv or xlsx files

The recommended way to install the extension is using Composer.

Run the following command within your Composer based TYPO3 project:

composer require --dev ayacoo/xliff

Do not forget to activate the extension in the extension manager and define the deepl api settings if necessary/desired. And also: Since we use a cache for deepl, a DB Compare is also necessary.

Attention: This extension should only be active in development mode!

This utility searches for all extension xlf files in the Resources/Private/Language folder. Afterwards the XLIFF header is rebuilt and the trans-unit elements are used from the original file.

vendor/bin/typo3cms xliff:migrate --extension=EXTENSION_NAME --overwrite=(1|0) --empty=(1|0) --path=SUBFOLDER --file==FILENAME

All XLIFF files will be migrated from version 1.0 to 1.2. If you want, you can also disable the overwriting of the file and a copy of the original file will be created.

The empty attribute can also be used to migrate empty XLIFF files.

If you want to customize a single file, use the file attribute. If this file is in a subfolder, add the path attribute.

With this command, a translated variant of locallang.xlf, for example, is to be created from an extension. For this purpose you can specify a comma-separated list of isocodes in the languages argument. In course of this, a XLIFF in version 1.2 is also directly created.

Then target elements are automatically added with the text from the source of the original. CDATA is also taken into account. All xlf files that do not have a target-language attribute are migrated.

If you use the parameter translate with true, you can also have these texts automatically translated from the original. For this deepl or Google Translate is used. For this an API account incl. key must exist.

It is unclear here if there are any limitations on the part of the API of deepl. In case of doubt it is maybe better to translate file by file.

vendor/bin/typo3cms xliff:generate --extension=EXTENSION_NAME --languages=ISOCODES --translate=(0|1)

Translation agencies sometimes require a different file format. For this reason there is also a CSV export. You can export any xlf file or you can control exactly one file with the parameters file and path.

vendor/bin/typo3cms xliff:export --extension=EXTENSION_NAME
vendor/bin/typo3cms xliff:export --extension=EXTENSION_NAME --file=FILENAME --path=PATH

If you need to export to Excel format, this is how to do it:

vendor/bin/typo3cms xliff:export --extension=EXTENSION_NAME --format=xlsx

By default, an export file is created from all xlf files at the end. If you want to have one generated file per xlf file you can use the parameter singleFileExport.

vendor/bin/typo3cms xliff:export --extension=EXTENSION_NAME --singleFileExport=(0|1)

https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us/ApiOverview/Internationalization/Index.html

The development of the extension was supported by the TYPO3 agency brandung.

The DeeplService of the extension wv_translate was used and slightly adapted.

And of course thanks deepl for their outstanding service