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TMX Support

TMX is the Translation Memory eXchange format. It is a standard XML format to exchange translation memory data between tools. TMX is maintained by the OSCAR special interest group at LISA (Localization Industry Standard Association). the specification document of the version 1.4b is available here: http://www.lisa.org/standards/tmx/tmx.html.

Olifant supports TMX as its main format.

Mapping between TMX and Olifant (_XX stands for the language code for that field):

TMX Olifant
In the <tu> element
tuid ID field
o-encoding OEncoding field
datatype DataType field
usagecount UseCount field
lastusagedate UseDate field
creationtool CreTool field
creationtoolversion CreToolVer field
creationdate CreDate field
creationid CreUser field
changedate ChgDate field
changeid ChgUser field
segtype SegType field
o-tmf OTMF field
srclang SrcLang field
<prop type="TTT"> @TTT or $TTT
<note> A note entry
In the <tuv> element
xml:lang The XX code
o-encoding OEncoding_XX field
datatype DataType_XX field
usagecount UseCount_XX field
lastusagedate UseDate_XX field
creationtool CreTool_XX field
creationtoolversion CreToolVer_XX field
creationdate CreDate_XX field
creationid CreUser_XX field
changedate ChgDate_XX field
changeid ChgUser_XX field
o-tmf OTMF_XX field
<seg> Text_XX field
<prop type="TTT"> @TTT_XX or $TTT_XX
<note> A note entry

The <prop> element is mapped to a field named after the value of the type attribute for that <prop> element.

  • If the value of the attribute type is "x-olf-flag" the data is mapped to the Flag field.

  • If the value of the attribute type starts with "att::" or "x-alm:" it is mapped to a picklist with multiple values property and its name is the value of the attribute type minus the prefix. For example "att::myProp" becomes "@myProp".

  • If the value of the attribute type starts with "x-als:" it is mapped to a picklist with single value property and its name is the value of the attribute type minus the prefix. For example "att::myProp" becomes "@myProp".

  • If the value of the attribute type starts with "txt::" or with "x-txt:" it is mapped to a non-picklist single value property and its name is the value of the attribute type minus the prefix. For example "x-txt:myProp" becomes "@myProp".

  • If the value of the attribute type does not match any of the cases above, it is mapped to a non-picklist single value property and its name is the value of the attribute type. For example "myProp" becomes "@myProp".

The content of the <seg> element stay as it is: The TMX content elements are read as they are into Olifant.