Sotir Rangelov 

A sample would be good.

Paul 

Thank you for your attention!

I am attachnig the sample files with 3 segments each:

https://we.tl/t-O3Dnays2VY

Meanwhile as we needed to start the project on Friday we did the following:
1. Create sdlxliff files from both source (A) and target (B).

2. Export for external review in bilingual DOCX.

3. Copy-paste the text from the B file into the target column of the A file. 

4. Manually correct the missallignments in the DOCX file.

5. Import back the bilingual A file into Trados (it did not want to do it until we removed all tags in the target column and this was the pitfall of this process)

6. We updated a specifically created TM as a reference.

I will be happy to do the alignment in Trados next time. :)

So your help is highly appreaiated!

Best regards,

Sotir

Sotir Rangelov 

Thanks for the files.  I don't know exactly why this won't work so I will log this with support and we can create a bug as needed.  In the meantime, and in case it helps with some ideas going forward, I was playing around with OpenAI this evening and create a Python script that will sort this out.  This is what I did:

1. opened the English source file in Studio as an en-bg project.  Copied source to target and saved the target file.
2. run the script that asks for the bulgarian source file, then the en-bg xliff target I created (that contains only English in source and target)
3. the script compares the IDs and if they are the same it puts the Bulgarian target into the en-bg file and saves an updated XLIFF as a new file

The script is here in case you're interested:

from lxml import etree
import os

def pretty_print_element(elem, level=0):
    # Function to add indentation and newlines to an XML element, recursively for all its children
    i = "\n" + level*"  "
    if len(elem):
        if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip():
            elem.text = i + "  "
        if not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip():
            elem.tail = i
        for child in elem:
            pretty_print_element(child, level+1)
        if not child.tail or not child.tail.strip():
            child.tail = i
    else:
        if level and (not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip()):
            elem.tail = i

# User input for file paths
first_file_path = input('Enter the path to the first XLIFF file: ')
second_file_path = input('Enter the path to the second XLIFF file: ')
output_file_path = os.path.splitext(second_file_path)[0] + '_merged.xliff'

# Load the XML content of both files
first_tree = etree.parse(first_file_path)
second_tree = etree.parse(second_file_path)

# Define the XML namespace
ns = {'x': 'urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:2.0'}

# Get the root of the XML files
first_root = first_tree.getroot()
second_root = second_tree.getroot()

# Iterate through each unit in the first file
for first_unit in first_root.xpath('//x:file/x:unit', namespaces=ns):
    unit_id = first_unit.get('id')
    # Find the corresponding unit in the second file
    second_unit = second_root.xpath(f'//x:file/x:unit[@id="{unit_id}"]', namespaces=ns)

    if second_unit:
        # Get the target node, or create one if it doesn't exist
        target_node = second_unit[0].xpath('.//x:segment/x:target', namespaces=ns)
        if not target_node:
            segment_node = second_unit[0].find('.//x:segment', ns)
            target_node = etree.SubElement(segment_node, f'{{{ns["x"]}}}target')
        else:
            target_node = target_node[0]
            # Remove any existing content in the target node
            target_node.clear()

        # Get the source node from the first unit
        source_node = first_unit.xpath('.//x:segment/x:source', namespaces=ns)[0]

        # Copy all content from the source node to the target node
        target_node.text = source_node.text
        for element in source_node:
            target_node.append(element)

# After updating the XML content but before writing it to a file
for element in second_tree.xpath('//x:unit/x:segment/x:target', namespaces=ns):
    pretty_print_element(element)

# Now write the updated and pretty-printed XML to a new file
second_tree.write(output_file_path, xml_declaration=True, encoding='UTF-8', pretty_print=True)

# Print a success message
print(f"The XLIFF files have been merged and saved as: {output_file_path}")

I ran it in the terminal of Visual Studio Code like this:

Result and file was this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<xliff xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:2.0" srcLang="en-GB" trgLang="bg-BG" version="2.0" xml:space="preserve">
  <file canResegment="no" id="Anti">
    <unit canResegment="no" id="6mC1hpNdo2N.Name" type="Articulate:PlainText">
      <segment>
        <source>Main Course</source>
        <target>Основен курс</target></segment>
    </unit>
    <unit canResegment="no" id="6T9xVpFJD5Y" type="Articulate:DocumentState">
      <originalData>
        <data id="generic_1"><Style Justification="Center" /></data>
        <data id="span_2"><Style FontSize="20.9454517" FontIsBold="False" /></data>
      </originalData>
      <segment>
        <source>
          <pc id="block_0">
            <ph dataRef="generic_1" id="generic_1"/>
            <pc dataRefStart="span_2" id="span_2">Create your personalised training today!</pc>
          </pc>
        </source>
        <target>
  <pc id="block_0">
    <ph dataRef="generic_1" id="generic_1"/>
    <pc dataRefStart="span_2" id="span_2">Създайте Вашето персонализирано обучение днес!</pc>
  </pc>
</target>
</segment>
    </unit>
    <unit canResegment="no" id="5eP0zufn63h" type="Articulate:DocumentState">
      <originalData>
        <data id="generic_1"><Style /></data>
        <data id="span_2"><Style FontFamily="Text TF Book" FontSize="10.4727259" FontIsBold="True" FontIsItalic="False" ForegroundColor="lt1,00" LinkColor="lt1,00" /></data>
      </originalData>
      <segment>
        <source>
          <pc id="block_0">
            <ph dataRef="generic_1" id="generic_1"/>
            <pc dataRefStart="span_2" id="span_2">START</pc>
          </pc>
        </source>
        <target>
  <pc id="block_0">
    <ph dataRef="generic_1" id="generic_1"/>
    <pc dataRefStart="span_2" id="span_2">НАЧАЛО</pc>
  </pc>
</target>
</segment>
    </unit>
  </file>
</xliff>

Which opens in Studio like this (tags fully expanded):

So now I can update into a TM.

Interestingly after I gave up using Powershell as I could not quite get it right, it actually took about 10 mins to come up with the code and create the file.  So quite aneat solution I think for when things are not working as expected in Studio... and if you have more files like this to do probably a lot faster and more accurate too seeing as XLIFF maps neatly this sort of process and the IDs are checked.

Thank you, Paul !

This solution will certainly help other users before Trados team checks it.

I will try to test it later this week.

Thank you, Paul !

This solution will certainly help other users before Trados team checks it.

I will try to test it later this week.