Bilingual txml file in Trados 2021

Question

Hi! 
 I am trying to process a bilingual tmxl file in Trados, the file has MT applied. 
 I tried with the Wordfast TXML plugin but it does not show the target pretranslation. I also tried with Multilingual XML but I guess I have the wrong Xpath, it shows both source and target under the same column (source column) in Trados. 
 
 How can I process this with Multilingual XML file type? 
 Thank you

Paul · Accepted Answer

TBO 
 ok - this screenshot explains why this won't work for you. 
 
 The languages Root is intended to tell the filetype where it will find the language elements. So it should be something like this: 
 /txml/translatable 
 The languages should then be the additional part to the original path that tell the filetype here to find the content for each language. It is not asking for the language code. So with the path I used for the root I would then add these for the languages: 
 segment/target 
 segment/source 
 So altogether I have this: 
 
 The path you have provided is actually not a path at all. I think it might help if you read through the wiki and watch the video for this filetype: Multilingual XML FileType 
 It can also help to strip the file down and just look at the structure. Basically it's this: 
 
 This way the path to each language becomes more clear. Another quick trick is to go straight to the end of the file as most files will be clear at the end since the header is often full of stuff that's not needed in terms of finding the paths to the translatable content.

Paul · Answer

TBO 
 I guess a couple of things: 
 
 can you share what settings you used for the ML XML filetype? If you see source and target in one column then you definitely didn't set this up correctly. 
 if you share the file, or at least the header and a couple of lines, then we can provide much better help. I don't really fancy retyping all of that to try and mirror your problem to test.

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