Hi Enrico,

the following snippet is untested but should actually work. It makes use of Studio's editor controller, so it doesn't rely on manual XML handling of the sdlxliff:

var pFile = _project.GetFile(fguid);
var editController = SdlTradosStudio.Application.GetController<EditorController>();
editController.Open(pFile, EditingMode.Translation);
var doc = editController.ActiveDocument;
foreach (var pair in doc.SegmentPairs)
{
    if (!pair.Properties.IsLocked)
    {
        pair.Target.Clear();
    }
}

fguid is the guid of the target file, _project a FileBasedProject.

Hope this helps.
Andreas

Hello Andreas,
Your snippet is lovely and is what i hoped for, but i get an error (object reference not set) on the editController.open() command.
I guess it's because I'm in a console app, while the EditorController implies having some gui to work with.

I implemented it like that:

        public bool TargetTuWiper(ProjectFile[] myFiles){

            var editController = SdlTradosStudio.Application.GetController();

            foreach (var pFile in myFiles) {

                int checkMyFile = pFile.FileTypeId.IndexOf("MemoQ");

                if (checkMyFile == 0){

                    editController.Open(pFile, EditingMode.Translation);

                    var doc = editController.ActiveDocument;

                    foreach (var pair in doc.SegmentPairs)

                    {

                        if (pair.Properties.IsLocked)

                        {

                            pair.Target.Clear();

                        }

                    }

                    editController.Save(doc);

                    editController.Close(doc);

                }

            }

            return true; //I'll do some checks later

        }
    

Yes, my bad. The controller is only accessible from a Studio plugin, not from a console app. :-(

If you wish to stick with a console app, you will probably need to use something like what is described in the Batch Task API .chm, section "Processing Files...".

You'd be basically reading the sdlxliff using Bilingual API :

public class FileReader : AbstractBilingualContentProcessor

...and writing a copy of it to a new file. You'd basically write everything as is 1:1 into the new file, and only where you encounter a locked segment, you'd unlock it first, then write it to the copy

public override void ProcessParagraphUnit(IParagraphUnit paragraphUnit)
{
    if (paragraphUnit.IsStructure)
    {
        //write directly to copy
        return;
    }

    foreach (ISegmentPair item in paragraphUnit.SegmentPairs)
    {
        if (item.Properties.IsLocked)
       {
          item.Target.Clear();
        }
    }
    //write to copy
    return;
}

When all is done, you can overwrite the initial sdlxliff with the manipulated copy.

This is all rather vague and I cannot test this at the moment, but I hope this gets you forward.

What really I can't understand is, having a project, how do I pass the target files to the AbstractBilingualContentProcessor?

I understood how you do this with batch tasks api, but not with just a collection of target bilingual files. And I can't find an example clear enough for me.

Any help would be really appreciated :-)