Struggling with Xliff source structure in SDL Studio 2017

Question

This has been logged as a case (Case No. 00620076) but I think Paul might have an idea, sorry for the potential duplication, but we're struggling. Thanks in advance. Kind regards. JCB

We are trying to process a file with Studio in which some segments have segmentation information (<mrk> tags) and some others don't, and we want the target file to have the exactly the same structure. However, the option "Do not store segmentation information in the translated file" does not seem to work for that purpose. We end up having a target file either with no <mrk> tags at all for all segments (by ticking that option), either with <mrk> tags for all segments, including those segments not having segmentation information in the source (by leaving that option unticked). Is there any option in Studio to maintain the segmentation information in the target file simply as it is in the source?

Paul · Answer

Jean-Christophe Bailbe 
 It looks as though the support team responded already and confirmed we don't have an option to do this. You either don't include this segmentation information or you do. Give your XLIFF source already contained some I'm wondering why it's a problem for you if the target files do all contain this segmentation information? 
 I can suggest a workaround though after seeing your screenshots in the support case just now. The file seems to come with the source language populated in the target element. So it doesn't come partially translated. This means you could handle this with a simple custom XML filetype and then all the content you want to remain as is will be maintained as is. Perhaps that will work for you?

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Struggling with Xliff source structure in SDL Studio 2017