What version of Trados?
Are you sure it's using the appropriate filetype?
Sample file?
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Trados 2022Attachment.zip
Thanks for the file... so this is a problem that has been reported for years and unfortunately we still didn't fix it! But you do have some options.
1. Use the default XLIFF Filetype
If you just enable the embedded content processor you can create two rules:
That should take care of the main mxliff tags:
If you have more content that needs handling then add more rules.
2. Use one of the apps that supports tagging content after the project is created
https://appstore.rws.com/Plugin/39
https://appstore.rws.com/Plugin/23
Both of these apps allow you to add tags to your translation in an existing project, and can remove them afterwards. So if I take your sample sdlxlff and apply these settings (I used the Data Protection Suite):
And the file looks like this:
Or this if you toggle the tag size:
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Thank you, Paul !
BTW, my friend tried with Trados 2021 + mxliff plugin(RWS AppStore)
And he can read the file correctly
Thank you, Paul !
BTW, my friend tried with Trados 2021 + mxliff plugin(RWS AppStore)
And he can read the file correctly
That would be because the AppStore created a more complete solution than the one that went into the product. But it is a different solution so the core product team didn’t adopt that. In fact I think the original work was done by a 3rd party developer who no longer works in a role where he has time to maintain it. So the AppStore team picked it up.
Maybe, if they see fit, the AppStore team can update their plugin for 2024. A question for perhaps.
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In fact I should have checked!! The AppSTore team have release a version for all the major releases so you can work with that:
https://appstore.rws.com/Plugin/29
The downside of having to use this as opposed to an out of the box filetype is that if you are working with the cloud you lose the benefit of being able to create projects in either environment. So it would be useful if the Trados team improved the out of the box filetype to support placeholders... probably a fairly trivial fix given they already handle other special tags the mxliff format uses.
But at least in the desktop environment you could use this and not have to mess around.
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