SDLXLIFF files

In the Languages section, you can control how strictly memoQ will match the documents' languages with the languages of the project:

•Import only content where languages match project languages exactly: Select this radio button to import sections where the language pair is exactly the same as the project languages. Sections with even slight language differences will not be imported.

•Import content where the main languages match project languages: Select this radio button to import sections where the main languages in the language pair match the project's languages. If there is a difference in the sublanguages (dialects), memoQ will still import the text. This is the default setting.

•Import all content regardless of language: Select this radio button to import every file section of the SDLXLIFF file. memoQ will not try to match the languages.

•Use project target language in export if it is not specified in the original: Check this check box to apply the project's target language to file sections where the target language is not specified.

In the Context section, you can specify if the trans-unit ID should be imported as Context ID.

Important: Use Import trans-unit ID as context ID when your workflow is based on SDLXLIFF files. If you have a mixed workflow containing SDLXLIFF files and other document formats like Word files, then turn disable this option. In this case previous and following segments are used to determine the context. This also takes effect when you import SDLXLIFF files into a corpus. Otherwise, you may not get context matches from the SDLXLIFF files.

Here you can map XLIFF states to memoQ states at import and export.

When you import, the "g" tags in the SDLXLIFF files are displayed as special tags. The tag information is populated from the tag catalog and you will also see information such as open/close/empty tags.

If your original file, that you imported into SDL Studio, is a DOC or DOCX file, then the b/i/u/subscript/superscript tags are displayed as such in memoQ. You can change them freely. This also applies for other MS Office formats (XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, RTF).

When you export the SDLXLIFF file or when you generate the SDL return package, memoQ does the following:

•it keeps the state, origin and match rate in the exported file,

•it keeps the current status and match rate in the memoQ document,

•it identifies the differences in the original target and the current target segment.

In the Import section, check the Map XLIFF statuses to memoQ statuses check box. In the list below, you see the default states mapping. Click the Add new conf value command link to add a new state:

Enter a conf attribute in the text field next to Value in SDLXLIFF "conf" attribute. Choose a state in the drop-down list for Default memoQ segment status. You can choose: Not started. Translator confirmed, Reviewer 1 confirmed, Reviewer 2 confirmed, Assembled from fragments, Partially edited, Pre-translated, Rejected or Machine Translated.

After you created a new conf value, you can add a new origin value to it or modify it. Click the Add new origin value / modify selected command link:

Enter a value in the text field next to Value in SDLXLIFF "origin" attribute. Choose a state in the drop-down list for memoQ segment status. You can choose: Not started. Translator confirmed, Reviewer 1 confirmed, Reviewer 2 confirmed, Assembled from fragments, Partially edited, Pre-translated, Rejected or Machine Translated.

Click the Remove command link to remove a state and its mapping.

In the Export section, check the Map memoQ statuses to XLIFF statuses check box. In the list at the bottom of the dialog, you can see the default mapping.

The Export original statuses for unchanged translations check box ensures that memoQ exports the exact same metadata for those segments that were not changed in memoQ. You should not clear this check box if you need to return your work to your client who uses SDL Trados Studio to continue to work on it.

•For translations rejected by a reviewer: memoQ will append this to the comment field in memoQ.

•For translations approved by a reviewer:memoQ will append this to the comment field in memoQ.

•For translations with "Rejected Sign-off" status:memoQ will append this to the comment field in memoQ.

•For translations with "Approved Sign-off" status: memoQ will append this to the comment field in memoQ.

The appended text will be displayed in triple hash marks, e.g. Rejected by reviewer.

Note: When you export the file, the appended text in the comment will be skipped.

Note: You can split and join segments in SDLXLIFF files.

When your SDLXLIFF files contain comment, you can see the SDLXLIFF comments, including highlighting, and also export memoQ comments into properly matched SDLXLIFF comment types. memoQ comments can be attached to a document, to a row, the source or target of a row, and a selection. A memoQ comment can be one of four types: Information, Warning, Error, or Other. If these are attached to a selection, the selection is highlighted with one of four (non-customizable) colors.

A comment in an SDLXLIFF document can be attached to a document, to a row (but not to source or target separately), and to a selection in the target segment only. An SDLXLIFF comment can be one of three types: For Your Information (FYI subsequently in this document), Warning, or Error. If it is attached to a selection, the selection is highlighted with one of three colors.

Note: memoQ always imports SDLXLIFF comments if there are any in the SDLXLIFF file. memoQ always exports SDLXLIFF comments.

Note: When SDLXLIFF comments are converted to memoQ comments, the user and timestamp information will be converted to memoQ user and timestamp information, and vice versa.