Getting DDP lists into WeSay
This page describes our process for getting existing translations of Ron Moe's Dictionary Development Process list into WeSay. This is advanced material.
1) Send the DDP files to Ken Zook (first_last@sil.org), and ask him if he is able to convert the files to a FieldWorks Language Explorer sql script.
2) Run that script in a FLEx project, and the script for every other language shipped with WeSay, on a blank FLEx database. Then export the whole thing to FLEx xml. (Hopefully Ken will do this for you).
3) Transform that file using the FlexSemdom-WesayOptionList.xslt found in the WeSay\common directory, saving the file over the existing DDP4.xml.
4) Transform that file again, this time using the FlexSemdom-WesayQuestions.xslt. Before transforming, you need to change the "lang" parameter of the xslt. The easiest way to do this is to edit the xslt, changing the third line, where it selected "en", to instead select the proper language.
Save the resulting file as Ddp4Questions-XX.xml, where XX should be the official two letter code for that language (e.g. 'fr' for french).
5) Unless the installer scripts have been improved to suck them all up, add this questions file to the list of files to be included in the installer.
