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

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Folkeryd, Fredrik [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:00 AM
> To: Yves Savourel; 
> 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:]
> Sent: den 21 mars 2011 15:25
> To: 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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