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Subject: RE: [xliff-users] Anyone know of an overview/evaluation of tools supporting XLIFF?
Tags are always protected in Swordfish. You can only hide or show the content. Regards, Rodolfo -- Rodolfo M. Raya <rmraya@maxprograms.com> Maxprograms http://www.maxprograms.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Folkeryd, Fredrik [mailto:Fredrik.Folkeryd@sonyericsson.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:00 AM > To: Yves Savourel; xliff-users@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [xliff-users] Anyone know of an overview/evaluation of tools > supporting XLIFF? > > Hi Yves, > Thanks a lot for comprehensive and clear answers! :) BR /Fredrik > (btw, I did look at Swordfish - but what threw me there was that you had to > enable tag protection explicitly (default was not to protect)) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yves Savourel [mailto:yves@opentag.com] > Sent: den 21 mars 2011 15:25 > To: xliff-users@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [xliff-users] Anyone know of an overview/evaluation of tools > supporting XLIFF? > > Hi Fredrik, > > > Does anyone know of an overview/evaluation of tools > > supporting XLIFF including the level of support? > > As for info on XLIFF tools: there is a good list of tools and features put > together by Micah Bly for the XLIFF Symposium, here: > http://www.localisation.ie/xliff/resources/presentations/xliff_tools_matrix_ > 20100922.numbers.pdf > > > > For instance, it is my understanding that a <ph> element > > contains not translatable content, and consequently one > > would expect tools that claim support for XLIFF to protect > > such elements automatically (to prevent editing). > > That's correct. > > > > However, all the tools I’ve looked at so far (as far as I > > can tell), do not protect the content (some seem to support > > post-edit verification of matching tags). > > I guess you are not looking at tool with proper XLIFF support, or XLIFF > support at all. > > Quite a few of the main commercial tools do support this correctly: Trados > TagEditor has a DTD Settings for XLIFF that does properly set all you need to > edit XLIFF, as long as you have the source text copied in <target>. Trados > Studio support <ph> well too. Swordfish has no problem with <ph> tags. > MemoQ is also fine with <ph> tags, etc. > > Several open-source tools are also supporting properly XLIFF: OmegaT has no > problem with <ph> tags for example. The only tools that does not support > <ph> properly among the XLIFF tools I know is the Open Language Tool XLIFF > editor. > > > > ...So, I’m wondering if I’ve misunderstood something completely. > > Or is it completely up to tools developers to interpret what > > “supporting XLIFF” means? If not, what is the prerequisite/ > > mechanism for tools developers to claim “accredited” > > compliance with the standard? > > There is no official "compliance test" for XLIFF tools. > But <ph> support is pretty basic stuff. I would be complaining loudly to the > tool vendor if they say they support XLIFF and do not support <ph> > elements. > > Hope this helps. > -yves > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: xliff-users-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: xliff-users-help@lists.oasis-open.org
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