Ignition Translation Converter

Inductive Automation's Ignition designer lets you export terms from the translation database in XML format. This command-line program written in Python is a simple tool that allows you to convert the XML file to CSV for easier editing in a spreadsheet program like LibreOffice Calc or MS Excel, as well as converting the CSV back to XML for importing the translated terms into your Ignition project.

Requirements

The program was built using Python3 standard libraries in addition to the lxml library for XML processing, which you can easily get with pip install lxml.

Usage

Running python main.py -h from the command-line should provide some help:

usage: main.py [-h] input_file output_file

Converts Ignition's translation database XML file to a CSV file and vice-
versa.

positional arguments:
  input_file   Path to the file to convert
  output_file  Path to the file to output

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit

Presumably, you'd start by converting the XML file you exported from Ignition to CSV:

python main.py '/home/user/TranslationTerms.xml' '/home/user/TranslationTerms.csv'

Once you've translated all your terms, convert it back to XML:

python main.py '/home/user/TranslationTerms.csv' 'home/user/TranslationTerms.xml'

Import back into Ignition and enjoy!

Feel free to submit an issue or contribute to the tool.