XLIFF file CDATA segmentation

Question

Hi, 
 I&rsquo;m new to this forum and as translator who knows nothing about programming or programming codes, I&rsquo;ve been trying to work with some *.xliff files exported from WordPress. Thanks to this forum, I&rsquo;ve managed to deal with the tags, but I cannot get Trados to break segments after a period or paragraph mark within a big CDATA segment. So I end up with a file with just 2 segments. 
 I&rsquo;ve been reading the forum and watched Paul Filkin&rsquo;s on demand elevate conference on handling XLIFFS, (btw, I&rsquo;m really excited about the new SR2 release that will deal with these files). But in the meantime, I&rsquo;ve been trying with regex and custom filetypes with no success on my part. In the case of filetypes, when I make one, I keep getting the error message <Value cannot be null. Parameter name: culture>. I must be doing something wrong because I know that Trados can handle this segmentation issue, and that the solution should be pretty straightforward. I&rsquo;m working with Trados Studio 2021 (SR1 - 16.1.8.4404). 
 Any help or step by step tutorial would be greatly appreciated. I&rsquo;m attaching images and a sample file with the segmentation issue. 
 Thanks!

Claudia Ciaschini · Accepted Answer

Thank you Paul, yes that was it! It was indeed one big CDATA section and I finally managed to create a custom filetype that worked. The way it worked for me was, under embedded content processor settings, instead of using the option, I had to set the option and play with the configuration over there to get the tags right, but it finally worked, thanks!

Paul · Answer

Claudia Ciaschini 
 Your screenshots are far too small to be able to read anything, but I imagine the problem is that the content of the file has been dropped into one big CDATA section inside a single translation unit in the XLIFF. This means you are going to have to be creative to handle this. It's been discussed many times in this community. Perhaps review some of these posts: 
 https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/studio/34087/why-embedded-content-in-cdata-is-not-processed-in-a-custom-xml-filetype-used-for-xliff-from-wordpress 
 https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/studio/38102/cdata-tags-in-trados-studio-not-working-properly 
 https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/studio/12708/how-to-fix-very-large-segments-in-studio-in-xliff-projects-from-wordpress-wpml/82354#82354 
 https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/studio/9222/xliff-filetype-that-can-handle-embedded-content 
 ... and many more.

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Alejandro Mestre Vives 
 Are you sure your xliff is a xliff 2.0? As you are using this file type. To check this, either select TAG ID in the view menu or look at the file type shown in Files section. Or use the preview to see which file type is being used. And of course make sure, that you are adapting the file type in your project settings and NOT in File -> Options.

Paul · Answer

Alejandro Mestre Vives 
 Maybe ensure your rule is set to exclude BEFORE you create your project and make sure that you apply the change in the settings you use for your project. So if you use a project template then make the change to the rule in the project template. If you use a previous project then make the change in the project settings for the previous project. If you use the default then make the change in either Tools -> Options or the default project template. 
 But most importantly do this BEFORE you create your project. 
 You could also consider working with the Multilingual XML filetype?

Paul · Answer

Alejandro Mestre Vives 
 Alejandro Mestre Vives said: Ok, seems to be right. It's doesn't work with 2021. 
 The set up is actually very simple. Try this:

Trados Studio > 1. Trados Studio

XLIFF file CDATA segmentation

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