Dear Santhosh,

Thanks for the feedback. Thanks to that I have a better version of tei file (Header info need lot of modification )

1. I am not able to validate using http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedict/index.php?title=FreeDict_HOWTO_-_12
I am using debian (TEI DTD are not available from rep)

But I validated using http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI-to-DICT_howto

xmllint --noout your-dictionary.tei

Other test I am not able do due to some errors
xmllint --noout --valid eng-mal.tei
eng-mal.tei:2: validity error : Validation failed: no
DTD found !
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">


also the conversion given in the link is also working fine

"
Transform the TEI file into something appropriate to be fed into dictfmt by entering

xsltproc -o dictionary.c5 -novalid --stringparam current-date
$(date) ../CVS/tools/xsl/tei2c5.xsl dictionary.tei

Transform the intermediate file into the database and index files by entering one (or a combination) of the following:

dictfmt -t --utf8 my_dictionary < dictionary.c5

dictfmt -t --headword-separator %%% --utf8 my_dictionary <
dictionary.c5

dictfmt -t -s <short_descriptive_name> --utf8 my_dictionary <
dictionary.c5

"

And the resulting dictionary file is working fine in goldendict


2. Header file is not modified ---now it just a copy from eng-fra  will do modify soon but I dont know the contents to be put.

3. whitespaces removed



one method described in http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI-to-DICT_howto is working (given above) for converting from tei to dict
 Note: there are  few split lines in the dict, I removed quite a few of them but this may sometimes lead to missing part of the info(malayalam meaning). I will look into it once again 


I didn;t use dict2tei.py because initially it didn;t worked for me. even now it is not giving output that can be validated

output of dict2tei.py is

<form><orth>abbey</orth></form>
<def>       1. കന്യകാമഠം</def>
<def>       2. മഠത്തോട് ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ദേവാലയം</def>
<def>       3. സന്യാസിമഠം</def>
<form><orth>abbot</orth></form>
<def>       1. മഠാധിപതി</def>

but the output in the format given in eng-fra and eng-hin dicts is of form
<entry>
            <form>
               <orth>ABC</orth>
               <pron>eibiːsiː</pron>
            </form>
            <sense n="1">
               <cit type="trans">
                  <quote>abc</quote>
               </cit>
               <cit type="trans">
                  <quote>alphabet</quote>
               </cit>
            </sense>
            <sense n="2">
               <cit type="trans">
                  <quote>abc</quote>
               </cit>
            </sense>
         </entry>
         <entry>

So the script because of that (I know little bit perl but no python even to debug)

to run the script
 perl tei2dict file.dict file.tei  (file should not have comments)



git I have to learn. I will do it tomorrow


Thanks & Best regards

Sunil

The existing data used to create English-Malayalam dictionary is to be formatted to Text Encoding Initiative(TEI)'s XML format before submitting to freedict.org for accepting.

See http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedict/index.php?title=FreeDict_HOWTO_-_TOC for further details.