I have the following problem. I have a bunch of TMX files here with 3 languages and I want to remove one language completely and swap the sorting of the two remaining ones. As there are thousands of entries that need to be edited, I need to find an automated solution (for Windows). Each translation segment looks like this:
(The brackets are of course angle brackets, but it's not displayed here so I changed it)
What I want to do now is get rid of the "de" segment and all its content, and swapping the sorting of the remaining two entries so fr is on top and en follows. I tried to use regular expressions with notepad++ to achieve this but I just can't figure out how to do it. Does anyone has an idea to do this? I tried using Olifant but there you can't change the sorting and it removes other information of the XML file (like ).
Thanks in advance!
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Piotr Bienkowski Poland Local time: 22:48 Member (2005) English to Polish + ...
Once you load the file into Olifant, you will be able to to delete the unwanted language in the file's properties.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Piotr
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Adam Łobatiuk Poland Local time: 22:48 Member (2009) English to Polish + ...
Use a CAT tool
Oct 10, 2011
Most CAT tools support TMX, so you should be able to create a new FR-EN TM, import the TMX as is, and then export it again.
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FarkasAndras Hungary Local time: 22:48 English to Hungarian + ...
no point
Oct 11, 2011
You could do this in Notepad+ but there is no need to do it if you want to use the tmx in a CAT tool. CATs are smart enough to ignore the superfluous third language and they are smart enough to import the languages correctly.
Just create a fr-en TM and import.
If you really need to do this for some odd reason, I can try and help get a regex together fot you.
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István Hirsch Hungary Local time: 22:48 English to Hungarian
In Word
Oct 11, 2011
I am sure the problem can be solved without creating a regex, easily and safely. However, if you are still interested, here is a regex which seems to work. It is for Word, because I am a bit more familiar with regex in Word, than in Notepad++.
Find:
(\<tuv xml:lang="en"\>^13\<seg\>*\</seg\>^13\</tuv\>^13)(\<tuv xml:lang="fr"\>^13\<seg\>*\</seg\>^13\</tuv\>^13)
Replace with:
\2\1
Note the space between each tuv and xml: tuv_xml.
If there are soft breaks between the lines, use ^10 instead of ^13.
After the Find/Replace operations I got this - hope this is what you need:
If It helps I have used Liquid XML Editor (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/xml-editor.aspx) for working with my files without any problems, you should be able to make the necessary alterations in the preferences tab.
good luck.
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