XLF - Random sentences not imported

Hi,

I'm facing a weird issue with XLF files:

Some sentences are randomly ignored and not imported in the editor.
There's nothing particular in the XLF and I can’t locate the source of that behaviour.

For instance, in the below TU, the sentence "Let me explain…" is not extracted and does not appear in the editor:

<trans-unit approved="no" id="cmpid570645230259159c1764654f_xlfid570645230259159c17646550" xml:space="preserve">
<source xml:lang="en"><g ctype="x-html-p" id="0">Lou calls Jane to report on his findings. “Hi Jane, I checked out our policy on <g ctype="x-html-a" id="1" target='_blank' style='color:black;' href='randomlink.com'><g ctype="underlined" id="2">UConnect</g></g> on sharing information with third parties, and there are different rules for different third parties. Let me explain…”</g><g ctype="x-html-p" id="3"> </g><g ctype="x-html-p" id="4" class='cbinstructiontext'>Connect the matching boxes, by clicking to draw a line between them</g></source>
</trans-unit>

Likewise, in the below TU, the sentence "There must be something we can do." is not extracted and does not appear in the editor:

<trans-unit approved="no" id="cmpid570516dd025915e595303c8f_xlfid570516dd025915e595303c90" xml:space="preserve">
<source xml:lang="en"><g ctype="x-html-p" id="0">But it’s an emergency! There must be something we can do.</g><g ctype="x-html-p" id="1">I’ll look into it and I’ll let you know what I find out.</g></source>
</trans-unit>

And I've imported the XLF using these settings:

Any idea?

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XLF - Random sentences not imported Hi, I'm facing a weird issue with XLF files: Some sentences are randomly ignored and not imported in the editor. There's nothing particular in the XLF and I can’t locate the source of that behaviour. For instance, in the below TU, the sentence "Let me explain…" is not extracted and does not appear in the editor: <trans-unit approved="no" id="cmpid570645230259159c1764654f_xlfid570645230259159c17646550" xml:space="preserve"> <source xml:lang="en"><g ctype="x-html-p" id="0">Lou calls Jane to report on his findings. “Hi Jane, I checked out our policy on <g ctype="x-html-a" id="1" target='_blank' style='color:black;' href='randomlink.com'><g ctype="underlined" id="2">UConnect</g></g> on sharing information with third parties, and there are different rules for different third parties. Let me explain…”</g><g ctype="x-html-p" id="3"> </g><g ctype="x-html-p" id="4" class='cbinstructiontext'>Connect the matching boxes, by clicking to draw a line between them</g></source> </trans-unit> Likewise, in the below TU, the sentence "There must be something we can do." is not extracted and does not appear in the editor: <trans-unit approved="no" id="cmpid570516dd025915e595303c8f_xlfid570516dd025915e595303c90" xml:space="preserve"> <source xml:lang="en"><g ctype="x-html-p" id="0">But it’s an emergency! There must be something we can do.</g><g ctype="x-html-p" id="1">I’ll look into it and I’ll let you know what I find out.</g></source> </trans-unit> And I've imported the XLF using these settings: https://community.rws.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/90/1780.Capture.PNG Any idea? Thanks
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0 Paul over 9 years ago

Hi Sorin,

I think if you add the target element into the file then you'll find the file is correct. I did this and it looks like this:

I tested this in other tools and Studio was the only one at least able to open the file... although it's then misleading since it's incorrect unless you have the target in there too. Here's my file if you wondered what I did:

https://community.rws.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/90/simpleXLIFF.xliff

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0 Sorin Pop over 9 years ago in reply to Paul

Hi Paul,

Many thanks for your answer.

And is there any way to do this automatically?
How did you do that? Manually in a text editor?

I wasn't so much looking for a quick fix, I need a solution for all future XLFs.
It seems to occur at an alarming frequency with some XLF files I receive from one particular client, and I want to avoid this problem altogether.

(FYI - when I import that particular XLF source file in other CAT tools, there is no problem whatsoever, everything gets imported)

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0 Paul over 9 years ago in reply to Sorin Pop

Hi Sorin,

No quick fix, or solution for all future XLFs. The XLIFF file needs to have the target element in there for Studio to accept it correctly. What other tools did you use? I'm curious to look at that.

Manually with a search and replace in a text editor, so whole file in one go at least.

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0 Sorin Pop over 9 years ago in reply to Paul

Hi Paul,

And what did you search/replace?
I'm a bit confused, could you please elaborate? Via a regex formula?

To answer your question, basically every CAT tools I have tried so far manage to import everything without any problem:
memoQ 2015, DejaVu X3, Wordbee, SmartCAT

...so this is a bit disappointing.

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0 Paul over 9 years ago in reply to Sorin Pop

Hi Sorin,

That's interesting. Based on your example I created the file and tested:

Failed in memoQ:

It does work in DVX which is cool and perhaps you should prepare your files in there if you have it, would be faster than a search & replace with an editor if you have lots of them since you could do them all in one go. Once I ran it through DVX and copied source to target then the translated file export opened fine in Studio.

However, if you want to use regex you could do something like this for example (back up your original files before you do this. I don't have your exact files!):

Search for:

<source(.*?)>(.*?)</source>

Replace with:

<source$1>$2</source><target$1>$2</target>

I have also sent this over to development for their comment as I've been wrong before.

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0 Paul over 9 years ago in reply to Paul

Hi Sorin,

ok - development have confirmed that this is actually something that has been resolved in the upcoming cumulative update CU6. Not sure of timescales exactly but its not far off. With that fix you get this:

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0 Sorin Pop over 9 years ago in reply to Paul

Hi Paul,

Good to know that it will be fixed in the next update.

And yes, in the meantime I also think the easiest solution would be to prep those files in another tool to get the source copied in the target, etc.

Many thanks for the regex, that's exactly what I was looking for but I wasn't sure how to accomplish that.
Thanks a lot for your help on this, much appreciated!

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Regarding memoQ and the rest - it does work fine with the actual source file, that's probably because you're just trying with the bits I pasted in my initial post.

memoQ 2015

Wordbee

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Studio 2015 (sentence missing)
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