Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Which CAT tools support XLIFF context groups and source&target versions?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Hello everyone
I have a client who sent me an XLIFF file like I've never seen before. Two things are unusual:
1. Context
Some segments have context groups. Context groups are a proper part of the XLIFF standard, so I would have expected some of the major CAT tools to have at least some support for it. Here's an example:
2. Versions
All segments in this file have translations, but sometimes the "translation" is a fuzzy match or from an older version of the file. The file does not contain segment statuses. The only way I can see whether a segment possibly contains a fuzzy match instead of a 100% match is by looking at the source and target "versions" to see if the version numbers differ. (AFAICT, this version attribute is not proper XLIFF but it is allowed in an XLIFF file, so it would be understandable if no major CAT tool supports it.)
Here is an example:
In the above example, the source text is version 4, whereas the translation is version 3, and here it is also obvious that the current "translation" is not an accurate translation of the source text, so presumably the current translation is a translation of "version 3" of the source text, which is itself nowhere to be found.
Some segments have differing version numbers but their translations are still perfectly good. In other cases of version number difference, for example, the source text contains e.g. 4 sentences in the segment while its current target text contains only 2 sentences.
I don't know yet if the client wants me to update the target text version number of such "fuzzy" segments that I have checked and edited and confirmed to be accurate, but it would make sense for me to do so.
I have tried this file in: Trados, Wordfast Pro 3, Wordfast Pro 5, MemoQ 2019, Virtaal, and OmegaT. I'm not an expert in all of these tools, so there may simply be a setting that I miss. But none of them support versions (which isn't a surprise), and none of them support contexts (which is disappointing).
Have you ever encountered such a file? In what tool can it be viewed or edited so that the version numbers are useful and/or so that one can see context information?
Thanks.
[Edited at 2019-11-29 16:27 GMT]
[Edited at 2019-11-29 16:28 GMT]
Topic: Which CAT tools support XLIFF context groups and source&target versions?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Hello everyone
I have a client who sent me an XLIFF file like I've never seen before. Two things are unusual:
1. Context
Some segments have context groups. Context groups are a proper part of the XLIFF standard, so I would have expected some of the major CAT tools to have at least some support for it. Here's an example:
2. Versions
All segments in this file have translations, but sometimes the "translation" is a fuzzy match or from an older version of the file. The file does not contain segment statuses. The only way I can see whether a segment possibly contains a fuzzy match instead of a 100% match is by looking at the source and target "versions" to see if the version numbers differ. (AFAICT, this version attribute is not proper XLIFF but it is allowed in an XLIFF file, so it would be understandable if no major CAT tool supports it.)
Here is an example:
In the above example, the source text is version 4, whereas the translation is version 3, and here it is also obvious that the current "translation" is not an accurate translation of the source text, so presumably the current translation is a translation of "version 3" of the source text, which is itself nowhere to be found.
Some segments have differing version numbers but their translations are still perfectly good. In other cases of version number difference, for example, the source text contains e.g. 4 sentences in the segment while its current target text contains only 2 sentences.
I don't know yet if the client wants me to update the target text version number of such "fuzzy" segments that I have checked and edited and confirmed to be accurate, but it would make sense for me to do so.
I have tried this file in: Trados, Wordfast Pro 3, Wordfast Pro 5, MemoQ 2019, Virtaal, and OmegaT. I'm not an expert in all of these tools, so there may simply be a setting that I miss. But none of them support versions (which isn't a surprise), and none of them support contexts (which is disappointing).
Have you ever encountered such a file? In what tool can it be viewed or edited so that the version numbers are useful and/or so that one can see context information?
Thanks.
[Edited at 2019-11-29 16:27 GMT]
[Edited at 2019-11-29 16:28 GMT]