Flat XML - configure default tag names

[kgronowski]

Hello,

I have a question about the flatxml format.
Is it possible to configure/customize default xml tag names that weblate should use when reading / creating new translation files as is possible using the appropriate options (root, value, key) in Translate Toolkit?

Basically I would like to change FlatXML format definition from

<root>
  <str key="hello_world">Hello World!</str>
  <str key="resource_key">Translated value.</str>
</root>

to e.g.

<dictionary xmlns="urn:translate-toolkit:flat-xml-dictionary">
  <entry name="hello_world">Hello World!</entry>
  <entry name="resource_key">Translated value.</entry>
</dictionary>

[nijel]

You currently need to define new file format in Weblate which would pass needed params. It's not possible to specify this on the UI, see #1897

[kgronowski]

Thank you for your answer.
Unfortunately I'm not really familiar with Python and Django and I'm not sure how I am supposed to add new format with needed params. I assume that I should add/create something similar to what can be found in ttkit.py but where/how should I set my params for converter.

Btw, I'm using Docker container for Weblate.

[nijel]

The easiest approach seems to be to subclass FlatXMLFile overriding its __init__ and changing parameters to desired values. You can then use the newly defined class as loader in the Weblate format class:

weblate/weblate/formats/ttkit.py

Lines 1233 to 1241 in 011dd3d

	class FlatXMLFormat(TTKitFormat):
	name = _('Flat XML file')
	format_id = 'flatxml'
	loader = ('flatxml', 'FlatXMLFile')
	monolingual = True
	unit_class = FlatXMLUnit
	new_translation = (
	'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n<root></root>'
	)

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