Anne Fox This should happen when the xlf file is generated. I know that the Okapi Toolkit offers to re-segment an already segmented file, but normally the source file should be segmented in a meaningful way as it is converted into XLIFF.

In Studio, you can split (or merge) segments, but this should only be done in exceptions.

If the segmentation of your file is not helpful, the best would be to get back to your customer?

Thank you. But unfortunately this doesn't really help me. Can Studio not be set to simply segment the file as it does with other file types?

XLIFF is a bilingual file type by design. It's not like other file types.

What you are trying to do is not exactly easy and there are tons of potential problems. How will you ensure that the newly segmented bilingual file will have proper source-target alignment? I did quite a bit with automatic alignment of "normal" file types, but never this.

In Okapi, you would create a translation kit and "segment further" using SRX rules, which you must have ready or know how to create. Or you take some vanilla SRX rules from somewhere, sure you can find that online somewhere. You can give it a try, but I won't have the time to walk you through this, and beware, Okapi have quite a learning curve - at least I found that. You might have an alignment step in there somewhere and create a custome pipeline.

Again, what you are trying to do is neither standard nor easy, and I would hazard the guess that's why Studio does not have the built-in functionality to do this.

XLF is a form of XML, and you can try whether you can get the Multilingual XML filetype in Studio to do what you want. Might be worth a try.

 Anne Fox 

If the XLF doesn’t contain source and target segments get then you could probably copy the source onto the target, and then create a custom XML filetype to translate the target only.

If you had a more recent version of Studio then you could probably use the multilingual XML filetype from the AppStore and then you could also handle an XLF with source and target segments already in the file.

Thank you to Daniel and Paul. So, am I to understand that there is no simple way to alter the segmentation of an xlf file in Trados Studio. Trados engineers, can you help with a simple fix? For example, MemoQ has a segmentation filter for this type of file.

Anne Fox

Is it a bilingual file - does it contain bilingual data (yet)? That is what would make it difficult.

(In general, if you can provide a sample file it's  a big help.)

Daniel

Anne Fox 

It would help if you confirmed whether or not the XLF contains source AND target segments or not.  That is what makes this difficult and memoQ will not handle this elegantly either!

Anne Fox said:

Trados engineers, can you help with a simple fix?

There already is one if you have Trados Studio 2022 at least.  The Multilingual XML filetype will segment on the source based on whatever rules you are using and if you do have target content in the XLF already that will remain unsegmented and get dumped into the first segment for you to address manually.

I thought I had attached the file in my original query. Apologies if not! Let me see how I add the file ...

Can you tell me how to attach or send the file?

Anne Fox 

Zip it, and then use the menu below to insert it: