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XML issue: why Studio 2021 SR1 - 16.1.3.4096 (O/S sadly is WIN 7 Home professional) replaces the ' with a "?

Hans-Georg Reiss

A customer would send me XML files for translation since many years. The problem is that I receive error messages described in the screenshots attached. I (not at all XML programmer) looked into old XML files, and there was a file called uptime_trans.dtd. This was not sent along with the latest XML files. In Studio 2013 (as in all legacy versions) there is a facility in which Project Settings  contained all types of files with various XML types among them (vd. screenshot)

Screenshot of Trados Studio Project Settings showing a list of file types including various XML types.

I am not a XML programmer, but I reckon that there is a way to enter this dtd file into the row with the file types so that further XML files can be treated adequately. Is this assumption correct? If so, how could I include the dtd file into the row with all the file types?

A further issue with these XML files was that a ' was replaced with a " which the effect that the customer could not oopen the target file although he could view the bilingual translation on Studio's editor screen. Why did Studio replace the ' with a double quotation mark " causing this error? I paste relevant files here hoping that they yield sufficient information. I really would appreciate your support since this issue is with a longtime customer, and it is hard to keep them during this pandemic.

Screenshot of Trados Studio editor screen displaying XML file content with highlighted text where a single quote is replaced by a double quotation mark.  Screenshot of Trados Studio XML view with blue highlighted text showing the structure of an XML file.Error message window in Trados Studio listing multiple XML parsing errors with details such as line and position numbers.

Theme_Stromversorgung SMPS_00003.xmlTheme_Stromversorgung SMPS_00003_E.xmlText snippet showing XML DTD file content with elements and attributes defined for uptime_trans.

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    Hi , , @Daniel Hug,

    I´ve just encountered a similar if not the same issue.

    I have a Visio file in *.vdx format. I created a custom XML file type using the "old" XML type (new method for embedded content). Everything works fine, except that the resulting SDLXLIFF is too big to be handled effectively by Studio (especially if handled as part of a batch), with a size of over 100MB.

    As an alternative I tried out the "new" XML type "XML 2". Here the resulting SDLXLIFF has optimal size with under 1MB. However, when exporting the target file, single quotation marks are replaced by double quotation marks within the attributes of elements. This causes problems with the XML syntax since there are many attributes with content surrounded by double quotation marks.

    I used a RegEx to replace all double quotation marks with single ones where this caused problems with the XML syntax. After doing this, the XML syntax was valid and I was able to open the *.vdx file without a problem.

    Is there a way to avoid this issue? Why do the XML types differ on this functionality?
  • 0 in reply to Luciano

    Luciano said:
    Is there a way to avoid this issue? Why do the XML types differ on this functionality?

    Excellent question and I'm afraid I don't have a good answer!  I ran a quick test on a file like this:

    Fullscreen quotes.xml Download 
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rootelement>
  <xml><apos type='single quotes'>I like to be different!</apos></xml>
  <html>
<![CDATA[
<apos type='single quotes'>I like to be different!</apos>
]]>
  </html>
 </rootelement>

    The XML2 is the only one of all the XML filetypes we still have that is inconsistent, returning this:

    Fullscreen xml2_quotes.xml Download 
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rootelement>
  <xml><apos type="single quotes">I like to be different!</apos></xml>
  <html>
<![CDATA[
<apos type='single quotes'>I like to be different!</apos>
]]>
  </html>
 </rootelement>

    I'll check with support to see whether this is something already noted.  In theory it shouldn't make a difference as both single quotes and double quotes are actually allowed in XML, but I have no idea why we try to "correct" it as opposed to just kicking out exactly what was put in.

    There is no workaround or button to check in the software that influences this.  It's all under the hood I'm afraid.  Interesting that the HTML filetype doesn't do this when handling the embedded content, but the XML filetype itself does.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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    Just an update to let you know this is now logged as a bug with our reference CRQ-25191.  You can quote this number to help with follow-ups when we release updated versions of the product.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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