XLIFF Configuration Options

When setting up a file format configuration for XLIFF files, there are many options to choose from to ensure extraction is successful. This page will explain each section of configuration options for XLIFF files.

The following file extensions are supported when setting up file format configurations for XLIFF: .xlf, .sdlxliff, .xliff, .xlif. 

These sections have been provided to help you become familiar with available XLIFF configuration options in Wordbee Translator: 

To learn more about working with file format configurations, please see the following pages: 

• Viewing File Format Configurations
• Modifying Format Configurations
• Creating Format Configurations
• Test and validate file format configurations

General Tab

The General Tab contains options for extracting content, defining the file as HTML, handling whitespaces and symbols, excluding content, and text segmentation. The options are described in general below based on individual sections. 

• Content Section - Extract XLIFF notes on segment level to Wordbee comments, extract any existing translations, and set segment status to 'Translated' in the translated XLIFF file.
  
  
• HTML Content Section - Inform the system that the content is HTML, set up a configuration for HTML extraction, and split text at HTML break tags.
  
  
• Whitespaces and Symbols Section - Do not show leading and trailing whitespaces, do not show preceeding and trailing markup, do not translate texts containing neither letters or digits, and always preserve whitespacees by default.
  
  
• Exclude Content Section - Configure content to be translated or not translated when the system looks for texts or regular expression patterns.
  
  
• Text Segmentation Section - Split segments at XLIFF segmentation boundaries, enable SRX rules for text segmentation, and elect to always split text at line breaks.

SDL XLIFF Tab

The SDL XLIFF Tab may be used to load advanced properties when XLIFF files have been produced by other CAT tools. 

• Extract Origin of Translations - The SDL 'origin' attribute specifies the origin of the translation: 'tm' for translation memory, 'mt' for machine translation, etc. The SDL 'percent' attribute tells whether a pretranslation is exact, fuzzy or perfect. These fields will be mapped to the respective fields in Wordbee Translator. The Wordbee word count will then take into consideration these values.