Using Drupal Translation Tools For Something Completely Different

Hi All!

The company that I work for creates software for mobile phones. I'm working on a project to use a Web site to gather community-generated translations for some versions of that software. In other words, I'm going to have a pile of text strings from the application UI(s), and I will be feeding them through a Drupal-based site for community translation. The end result should be something similar to Google's Google In Your Language.

At the moment I'm just starting to experiment with existing Drupal i18n/l10n tools to figure out if I can do this with the existing modules or if I need to branch off from them into new use-specific modules. One thought I had was to create a node-generatator that takes each of those text strings, turns them into a node to be translated, and then I could have translators simply translate those nodes. I'm not sure if that's the best route, though.

Any comments or ideas on that would be appreciated.