XML file that opens in Trados Studio as completely blank - problem with closing tags?

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Hi there fellow Trados Studio users and SDL staff, 
 One of our customers has sent us an XML file they were given by an external agency that contains the text to appear in an interactive infographic. 
 Unfortunately, when loaded into Trados, the file appears completely empty. I'm pretty sure the problem lies with the XML, and perhaps a lack of "closing tags"? 
 None of the text to be translated shows up in black in Notepad++ either 
 Here's an excerpt: 
 
 Is there anything I can do to make it translatable? A quickish find and replace operation to add in closing tags perhaps? 
 Something tells me the entry target="" could perhaps be intended for the translation as it appears after each and every section of translation-relevant text. 
 Any pointers would be much appreciated!

Paul · Accepted Answer

Andrew James Wood This article may be better for you as it's more relevant to how to use the tool to handle an XML file: https://multifarious.filkin.com/2014/06/01/custom-xml/ It's pretty straightforward and if you provided a snippet of the file instead of a screenshot I could show you a better example of how to do this with your file. But here's a quick example based on this snippet I created from the information you have shared: Fullscreen attributes.xml Download I used XML2 when I created the new XML filetype and I based this on using XPath rules as I prefer the flexibility this offers. I then created three rules: //* (to tell Studio not to extract anything at all) //hotspot/@description (to extract text from the description attribute inside the hotspot element) //hotspot/@title (to extract text from the title attribute inside the hotspot element) Like this: The sample file I created now parses like this: Andrew James Wood said: All their other translators have just sent the file back to them in a kind of "computer says no" fashion. They either don't have Trados Studio or they don't know how to use it :-)

Paul · Answer

Andrew James Wood 
 A few things... 
 
 the possible translatable content all seems to be in attributes. This is fine, but the default AnyXML will not pick these up You have to create a custom XML filetype for this. 
 target=""...I have no idea what this is for. You need to ask your client. I'd be surprised if this is for the target translation as there are least two attributes that contain possible translatable text (description and title), so where would you put these if the target is for it? 
 
 I think you need to have a discussion with your client, ask them what's supposed to be translated and where the translatable text needs to be. All easy to handle, but you should not be guessing.

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XML file that opens in Trados Studio as completely blank - problem with closing tags?

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