How to use xliff alt-trans in trados?

Hello,

I have some xliff documents from another software, and this documents have pretranslated text in alt-trans fields.

I can see them in the preview, but the editor does not give me any information obout them.

Is there any way to see, from the editor, that a segment have a pretranslation in alt-trans? and how to set this pretranslated text as the translation of the segment?

Thankyou!

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  • We don't use this information at all, only in the preview.

    I guess you could workaround it and use regex to replace the target content in the XLIFF with the alt-trans?  That might be a workaround for you.

    Paul Filkin | RWS

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  • Hello Paul,

    In some cases, there is more than one alternative for the same segment, and I would like to find a way to choose between them when I am working with that segment, instead of doing all the substituitions blindly.

    I hope there is a more suitable aproach to deal with it, but if I can not find any, I will try this.

    Thankyou for your suggestion

  • Could you send me a sample file based on what you see?  I mocked up an example that follows the spec but would be interested to see what you get.  This is what I used:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    <xliff version='1.2' xmlns='urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2'>
      <file original='hello.txt' source-language='en' target-language='es' datatype='plaintext'>
        <body>
          <trans-unit approved="no" id="1" resname="res1" xml:space="preserve">
            <source xml:lang="en">Corporate Headquarters</source>
            <target xml:lang="es">Casa Central de la Compañía</target> 
            <alt-trans match-quality="100" origin="web" tool="TM Search"> 
              <source xml:lang="en">Corporate Headquarters</source>
              <target xml:lang="es">Sede corporativa</target> 
            </alt-trans> 
            <alt-trans match-quality="95" origin="web" tool="TM Search">
              <source xml:lang="en">"Corporate Headquarters"</source> 
              <target xml:lang="es">"Sede central de la empresa"</target> 
            </alt-trans>
          </trans-unit>
        </body>
      </file>
    </xliff>

    Paul Filkin | RWS

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  • Could you send me a sample file based on what you see?  I mocked up an example that follows the spec but would be interested to see what you get.  This is what I used:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    <xliff version='1.2' xmlns='urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2'>
      <file original='hello.txt' source-language='en' target-language='es' datatype='plaintext'>
        <body>
          <trans-unit approved="no" id="1" resname="res1" xml:space="preserve">
            <source xml:lang="en">Corporate Headquarters</source>
            <target xml:lang="es">Casa Central de la Compañía</target> 
            <alt-trans match-quality="100" origin="web" tool="TM Search"> 
              <source xml:lang="en">Corporate Headquarters</source>
              <target xml:lang="es">Sede corporativa</target> 
            </alt-trans> 
            <alt-trans match-quality="95" origin="web" tool="TM Search">
              <source xml:lang="en">"Corporate Headquarters"</source> 
              <target xml:lang="es">"Sede central de la empresa"</target> 
            </alt-trans>
          </trans-unit>
        </body>
      </file>
    </xliff>

    Paul Filkin | RWS

    Design your own training!
    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
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