probably have to resurrect the old xml-i18n-tools package:
Version 0.32.1
* Deprecate --pass-through option, default to UTF-8 for anything
except RFC822 files
-- bug #145017 (Danilo Segan)
* Add support for .icon files
-- bug #157412 (Takao Fujiwara, Rodney Dawes)
Version 0.32
* Check to avoid whining about {arch} and $PACKAGE-$VERSION dist directories
when looking for files missing from POTFILES.in
-- bug #157278 (Rodney Dawes)
* Deprecate AC_PROG_INTLTOOL for IT_PROG_INTLTOOL
-- bug #151508 (Rodney Dawes)
* Add new INTLTOOL_XML_NOMERGE_RULE for translating XML files without
merging the translations back into the output XML file
-- bug #155842 (Rodney Dawes)
* Fix new Makefile.in.in stuff to work with automake 1.4
-- bug #157298 (Rodney Dawes)
* Update I18N-HOWTO for the changes to use our own Makefile.in.in
-- bug #79598 (Rodney Dawes)
* Allow use of either AM_GNU_GETTEXT or AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT and use our
own Makefile.in.in instead of trying to patch one
-- bug #144715 (Rodney Dawes)
* Handle all supported gettext escape sequences in PO files
-- bug #48489 (Danilo Segan)
* Fix Scheme string extraction, add support for translators' comments
-- bug #137029 (Danilo Segan)
* Fix translations of attributes of XML elements
-- bug #155843 (Danilo Segan)
* Support for translators' comments in Glade files
-- bug #155294 (Danilo Segan)
* Fix paths and quoting for intltool script variables in intltool.m4
-- bug #154717 (James Henstridge, Rodney Dawes)
* Fix merging of xml:space="preserve" tags
-- bug #151017 (Danilo Segan).
* Look for Q_() keyword as well
-- bug #154063 (Danilo Segan).
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