XML marking elements as translatable based on attribute or XPath

Question

I've got an XML that contains elements that look like this:

<VALUE1 language="en-US">this must not be translated</VALUE1>
<VALUE1 language="th-TH">this must be translated</VALUE1>

(yep, multilanguage XML)

I can't get Trados to show only the elements that have attribute language="th-TH".

1. When I set the Rule type to 'Attribute', the rule cannot be set to Not Translatable (the drop-down is greyed out with a fixed value of 'Always translatable')
2. When I use XPath VALUE1[@language="th-TH"], the elements never show up.

How do I handle this type of XML file?

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Harro de Jong , 
 
Try this: 
 
//VALUE1[not(@language='en-US')] 
 
That should extract all VALUE1 element content apart from those with the attribute en-US

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XML marking elements as translatable based on attribute or XPath