Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMX editor with Regex support (Windows 10)?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Hayley
[quote]Hayley Leva wrote:
Can you confirm that I can do the following:
- export a tmx of my TM from Trados Studio (2017) (I know how to do this step)
- open and clean up* that tmx in CafeTran
- convert the edited tmx back into a Studio TM [/quote]
I have no idea what CafeTran does to a TMX file, but even if we assume that CafeTran and Trados 2017 both fully accept valid TMX, there may still be a problem on Trados' end. Trados can export TMX files in a variety of variations, and not all of those options are roundtrip compatible. You'd have to ask this question in the Trados forum, i.e. "if I want to export to TMX and then import from TMX again, what export/import settings should I use to ensure that the imported units contain all the same information as in the original TM?".
Theoretically, another thing can go wrong: CafeTran's XML engine may not be compatible with Trados' XML engine. I know from experience that Trados' engine is quite forgiving about non-valid XML characters in some cases (and unforgiving in other cases), and we don't know how CafeTran's engine would deal with such characters (would it refuse to open the TMX, would it open the TMX and silently replace the invalid characters with something else, would it open the TMX but then refuse to save it until you've removed the invalid characters, etc).
Topic: TMX editor with Regex support (Windows 10)?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Hayley
[quote]Hayley Leva wrote:
Can you confirm that I can do the following:
- export a tmx of my TM from Trados Studio (2017) (I know how to do this step)
- open and clean up* that tmx in CafeTran
- convert the edited tmx back into a Studio TM [/quote]
I have no idea what CafeTran does to a TMX file, but even if we assume that CafeTran and Trados 2017 both fully accept valid TMX, there may still be a problem on Trados' end. Trados can export TMX files in a variety of variations, and not all of those options are roundtrip compatible. You'd have to ask this question in the Trados forum, i.e. "if I want to export to TMX and then import from TMX again, what export/import settings should I use to ensure that the imported units contain all the same information as in the original TM?".
Theoretically, another thing can go wrong: CafeTran's XML engine may not be compatible with Trados' XML engine. I know from experience that Trados' engine is quite forgiving about non-valid XML characters in some cases (and unforgiving in other cases), and we don't know how CafeTran's engine would deal with such characters (would it refuse to open the TMX, would it open the TMX and silently replace the invalid characters with something else, would it open the TMX but then refuse to save it until you've removed the invalid characters, etc).