Can I mark an XML element as untranslatable based on its attribute?

Question

My client sent me an XML file containing multiple languages. Each language is stored in the same element, but the language is contained in the attribute.

I only have to translate the English strings. Can I create a parser rule in SDL Trados Studio 2017 that can do that?

<CATALOG_NAME lang="deu">Der Name des Katalogs.</CATALOG_NAME>

<CATALOG_NAME lang="eng">The name of the catalog</CATALOG_NAME>

</CATALOG>

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Ken De Wachter You could use this to exclude the deu: //CATALOG_NAME[not(@lang="deu")] Or you could use this to only take eng: //CATALOG_NAME[(@lang="eng")]

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Can I mark an XML element as untranslatable based on its attribute?