Poedit doesn't recognise my *.xml files

Question

I configured Poedit (1.8.7 on OS X 10.11) according to this answer, but get the this message:

"warning: file 'xyz.xml' extension 'xml' is unknown, will try C"

But my configuration is as follows:

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

First of all, it’s a terribly misguided idea to use the Glade extractor to extract anything other than Glade files — your custom XML file isn’t.

I’m guessing that this particular error is a side-effect of changes in gettext-0.19.7 that introduced support for custom XML files via ITS rules and implemented Glade support in terms of it. I think (but again, am not sure) that it simply ignores the -L flag in this case.

The best way to do this is to

1. Add a custom extractor with your extension, specifying standard gettext invocation, without the -L glade lie.
2. Write ITS rules for your file format.
3. Put them in the location of other .its and .loc files in Poedit’s installation.