Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: How to convert a TBX file into a Translation Memory
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Adrián
[quote]Adrián L. wrote:
I came across a TBX file (IATE, a free file given by the European Union). ... Is there a way to convert the TBX file [to TMX]? [/quote]
I also have a version of that file (downloaded in 2018, 2 GB unzipped). I tried it in various tools just now. Locamotion's tbx2po gives an error message. Xbench 2.9 opens it without complaining but I can't figure out how to export anything from it (and besides, 2.9 may not preserve the Unicode characters correctly anyway).
Goldpan says that the file is too big and that I have to split it into smaller files using Batch Tools > Split. (GoldenDict gives a similar error message.) Well, when I try to do that in Goldpan, I get an error message that is apparently related to a Windows setting, saying that DTD processing is not allowed for some or other security reason. I solved this by opening the TBX file in a text editor (I used Akelpad) and just deleted the DOCTYPE line (line 2 of the file). Then Goldpan split the file without any complaint into 100 MB files, which even the Trados Glossary Converter appeared to accept. I'm not sure what effect deleting the DOCTYPE line would have, but I doubt if the effect would be great.
Topic: How to convert a TBX file into a Translation Memory
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Adrián
[quote]Adrián L. wrote:
I came across a TBX file (IATE, a free file given by the European Union). ... Is there a way to convert the TBX file [to TMX]? [/quote]
I also have a version of that file (downloaded in 2018, 2 GB unzipped). I tried it in various tools just now. Locamotion's tbx2po gives an error message. Xbench 2.9 opens it without complaining but I can't figure out how to export anything from it (and besides, 2.9 may not preserve the Unicode characters correctly anyway).
Goldpan says that the file is too big and that I have to split it into smaller files using Batch Tools > Split. (GoldenDict gives a similar error message.) Well, when I try to do that in Goldpan, I get an error message that is apparently related to a Windows setting, saying that DTD processing is not allowed for some or other security reason. I solved this by opening the TBX file in a text editor (I used Akelpad) and just deleted the DOCTYPE line (line 2 of the file). Then Goldpan split the file without any complaint into 100 MB files, which even the Trados Glossary Converter appeared to accept. I'm not sure what effect deleting the DOCTYPE line would have, but I doubt if the effect would be great.