Seems like this set of scripts works for the tests...

bin/androidxml2po.bash

@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ if [ ! -e /usr/bin/gettext ]; then
 fi    
 
 # Set the languages here (po -> name of .po file. res -> name of res folder)
-po_lang=( "ca" "cs" ) # "de" "es" "fr" "id" "it" "ja" "ko" "nb" "nl" "pl" "pt" "ru" "sv" "tr" "zh_CN"  "zh_TW")
-res_lang=("ca" "cs" ) # "de" "es" "fr" "id" "it" "ja" "ko" "nb" "nl" "pl" "pt" "ru" "sv" "tr" "zh-rCN" "zh-rTW")
+po_lang=( "ca" ) #"cs" ) # "de" "es" "fr" "id" "it" "ja" "ko" "nb" "nl" "pl" "pt" "ru" "sv" "tr" "zh_CN"  "zh_TW")
+res_lang=("ca" ) #"cs" ) # "de" "es" "fr" "id" "it" "ja" "ko" "nb" "nl" "pl" "pt" "ru" "sv" "tr" "zh-rCN" "zh-rTW")
 
 #Change the dirs where the files are located.
 launchpad_po_files_dir="translations"
@@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ xml2po="`dirname $0`/xml2po.py"
 function import_po2xml
 {
     for resource_file in $android_xml_filenames; do
+        echo "Importing .xml from .pot: $resource_file"
         for (( i=0 ; i<${#po_lang[*]} ; i=i+1 )); do
-            echo "Importing .xml from .po for "${resource_file}-${po_lang[i]}""
+            echo " Importing .xml from .po for "${resource_file}-${po_lang[i]}""
             mkdir -p "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"-"${res_lang[i]}"
             ${xml2po} -a -l "${po_lang[i]}" -p "${launchpad_po_files_dir}"/"${resource_file}"-"${po_lang[i]}".po \
                 "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"/"${resource_file}".xml > "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"-"${res_lang[i]}"/"${resource_file}".xml
@@ -70,19 +71,11 @@ function export_xml2po
             "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"/"${resource_file}".xml
 
         for (( i=0 ; i<${#po_lang[*]} ; i=i+1 )); do
-            if [ -e "${launchpad_po_files_dir}"/"${resource_file}"-"${po_lang[i]}".po ] ; then
-                echo "Exporting .xml to updated .po for "${po_lang[i]}""
-                if [ -e "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"-"${res_lang[i]}"/"${resource_file}".xml ] ; then
+            echo " Exporting .xml to updated .po for "${resource_file}-${po_lang[i]}
             ${xml2po} -a \
                 -r "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"-"${res_lang[i]}"/"${resource_file}".xml \
-                        -u "${launchpad_po_files_dir}"/"${resource_file}"-"${po_lang[i]}".po \
-                        "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"/"${resource_file}".xml
-                else
-                    ${xml2po} -a \
-                        -u "${launchpad_po_files_dir}"/"${resource_file}"-"${po_lang[i]}".po \
-                        "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"/"${resource_file}".xml
-                fi
-            fi 
+                "${android_xml_files_res_dir}"/"${resource_file}".xml > \
+                "${launchpad_po_files_dir}"/"${resource_file}"-"${po_lang[i]}".po
         done
     done
 

bin/xml2po.py

@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ def processElementTag(node, replacements, restart = 0):
         if not translation:
             translation = outtxt.decode('utf-8')
             if worth and mark_untranslated: node.setLang('C')
+        else:
             translation = escapeXmlString(translation)
         
         if restart or worth: