ST4.sdlftsettings

Question

Dear All, 
 How to deal with the file-formats below with Studio 2019 pro ? 
 ST4.sdlftsettings 
 Across.dst 
 
 Many thanks in advance for your anwer, 
 Maria

Paul · Accepted Answer

Maria Pettersson 
 If you can provide a couple of sample files so we can see what they look like then I'm sure we can help. You could zip them up and attach to your reply?

Maria Pettersson · Answer

Dear Paul, 
 
 Please see both files attached 
 Thanks for your help. ST4.zip

Paul · Answer

Maria Pettersson 
 Apologies for the delayed response. Handling the ST4 settings file is simple. Just go your filetypes and import the settings file: 
 
 Say yes to create the new filetype. Now you have a new filetype called "Scheme ST4". 
 
 The DST file is a "Document Settings Template" used by Across for the same purpose. It creates a " SCHEMA_ST4_2018_TaggedXML " filetype in Across so you can handle ST4 XML files.

Paul · Answer

Maria Pettersson 
 I guess that all depends on the files themselves and without seeing them I can't answer that. Maybe you can edit one so we have a small sample with the language attributes in the file so we can see? 
 You have various options supporting language attributes in an xml file so these may help... just depends on what your file looks like:

Paul · Answer

Maria Pettersson 
 Thank you. So I think this means that if the files come with this part already populated 
 source="fr" target="it" source-culture="fr-FR" target-culture="it-IT" 
 and if this is essential information for the CMS using it then you do one of these two things: 
 
 create a single Studio project for all files with the same source language and add as many target languages as you need. Then after saving the target files do a batch search & replace to address the target language codes with a descent editor, or script. So you would only use one of the target language source files in Studio. OR 
 create multiple projects, one for each of the target language source files. 
 
 If it was me I think I'd use 1. Once you have the process defined to manage the renaming with a script it'll be a trivial task, whilst the management of the multiple Studio projects would be a lot more time intensive. 
 Unfortunately these files don't use the xml:lang attribute at all so Studio cannot change these automatically for you. 
 Maybe someone else with more experience of dealing with these formats in practice has a better idea? Someone like Arnold from Kaleidoscope might also have a good solution for this. A while ago they supported COTI which might be relevant here and provide a better process for industry "standards" like Schema: 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2016/12/19/coti-chuckling-on-the-inside/

Paul · Answer

Maria Pettersson 
 Maria Pettersson said: I still wonder why "New Fragment" is visible in Studio. 
 Perhaps you just need to make sure you have a parser rule that excludes the title element. The ST4 settings file, if this is what you are using, may just need tweaking for the particular content you have.

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