Hi Marco,

I'm not a developer but one of the OX developers I know suggested this:

To implement an SDLXLIFF reader using the SDL SDK API the developer needs to get hold of the ‘ProcessParagraphUnit’ by implementing the IBilingualContentProcessor interface from the BilingualApi and then use one of the conversion methods to access that implementation like IMultiFileConverter etc… for Studio 2011 for example.

There are plenty of examples from the File type Support Framework API; the developer just needs to …search for ProcessParagraphUnit and read/study.

File type Support Framework 2.0 (governing custom verifiers, previews and filters)

At the very minimum the developer will need to make reference to the following assemblies:

• Sdl.FileTypeSupport.Framework.Core
• Sdl.FileTypeSupport.Framework.Core.Utilities
• Sdl.FileTypeSupport.Framework.Implementation

Good luck!

Paul

You can create and SDLXLIFF file type extension that is going to be called when the SDLXLIFF file is generated from your source file or when the target file is generated. This is possible using the Filter Component Builder. You can find more details here:

Also you can have a look at this plugin wich is extending the XLIFF file type:

Hi Romulus,

I am sorry I read your reply and code you shared several times but it is not clear. I got application working to read SDLXLIFF using

                  var mgr = DefaultFileTypeManager.CreateInstance(true);

                   var bilingualFilePath = file.FullName;

                   var conv = mgr.GetConverterToDefaultBilingual(bilingualFilePath, null, null);

                   var test = new AnalyseSdlxliff();

                   conv.AddBilingualProcessor(test);

                   conv.Parse();

But I found that there are two issue when I would like to do Search and Replace.

1. Is it output file needed? Is there any way how to update the input file directly? This way is slowing down whole performance of small and easy to way use application.

2. If the output file is written the header of file is not same as in input file.

a)

input file: cmt-def id="536440a5-9af2-41be

output file: cmt-def id="a6a9e4f8-3e4c

b)

Input: </internal-file></reference><sdl:ref-files><sdl:ref-file uid="0" id="http://www.sdl.com/Sdl.FileTypeSupport.Bilingual.Itd/OriginalFile" name="GUID-05758A9C-015D-4649-97F3-91F9625D70EE-en-us-ja-2-20150509-0400_xml.itd"

Output: </internal-file></reference><sdl:ref-files><sdl:ref-file uid="0" id="http://www.sdl.com/Sdl.FileTypeSupport.Bilingual.Itd/OriginalFile" name="lrrznyq5.y0u.itd"

I am not sure if these changes impact the file for processing in TMS.

Thanks

Petr

1. Studio API doesn't offer any capability to update the input file directly. To clarify this a bit more it's important to know that every Studio file type is in fact a Studio plugin (including the ones which are part of the core product). Each plugin has his own particular implementation on how it reads that particular file  which means you don't have a unique API for reading all the file types. In your case the input file is xml basically so you can write your own processing using standard .net xml processing.

2. I'm afraid that this is not related to the API's rather is how Studio is working and you can't change that default behavior from your plugin. If you need more information about this you can raise a Studio support ticket.

Regarding TMS I can't say much since I haven't worked it. 

You can edit SDLXLiff files just keep in mind that you might not support if there issues with your changes on the file.

Before getting any further can you please detail why do you need to replicate the features of  Transistor  on top of SDLXliff files? The reason I'm asking this is because the developer of that tool wanted to do that but changed his mind when he find out that he can all he needed from Studio.

I guess you could use the SDLXLIFF Toolkit which can search/replace across multiple files and has full regex support for this too.  Doesn't that do the task for you?  Just curious.

Regards