I have recieved from a friend a custom-made keyboard layout, designed (as he puts it) to be a "programmer-friendly port of a combination of the two most common Swedish variants of the Dvorak keyboard layout". He is using Mac OSX, so he just zipped the contents of his ~/Library/KeyboardLayouts and sent it to me. Of course, the files don't seem portable to Ubuntu without modification - at least I don't understand how...

Among the files, the file that seems to do the actual work is a file called Svorak.keyboard, which in fact is an XML file defining the keyboard layout. The first section of the file is shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE keyboard SYSTEM "file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/Keyboard.dtd">

<keyboard group="0" id="0" name="Svorak" maxout="2">

        <layouts>

        <layout first="0" last="0" modifiers="28" mapSet="a0"/>

    </layouts>

    <modifierMap id="28" defaultIndex="7">

        <keyMapSelect mapIndex="0">

            <modifier keys="command?"/>

            <modifier keys="anyShift command caps?"/>

        </keyMapSelect>

        <keyMapSelect mapIndex="1">

            <modifier keys="anyShift caps?"/>

        </keyMapSelect>

...

    </modifierMap>

    <keyMapSet id="a0">

        <keyMap index="0">

            <key code="0" action="8"/>

            <key code="1" action="o"/>

            <key code="2" action="e"/>

...

Is there any (easy) way I can take this layout and re-map it into a standard Ubuntu format? I'd like to install it alongside my regular QWERTY layout, so I can switch between them using the applet in the status bar etc - in other words, I want to install it as any other installed keyboard layout in Ubuntu.

Is that possible? How?