[ omegat-Bugs-1549926 ] trados TMX import bug

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Bugs item #1549926, was opened at 2006-08-31 22:22
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jean-Christophe Helary (brandelune)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: trados TMX import bug

Initial Comment:
CF the recent thread on Yahoo:

OmegaT message:
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>An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1f) was 
>found in the element content of the document.
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Yves' answer:
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TMX files are XML documents and they (normally) should folow the XML 
specification: The character 0x1F (a 'segment separator', the
character just before the ASCII Space) is not a character allowed in 
XML. It's a control character.

Try to replace the .tmx extension by .xml and open it in Internet 
Explorer, you'll probably get the same error.

(See http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#CharClasses 
for the allowed characters)

Simply replace it or delete it all occurences of such character and your 
TMX file will behave more correctly, currently it's just an
invalid file.

Now, why Trados allows invalid characters in TMX... No idea, they 
probably want to make sure one can get exact matches. They should
escape it in some (non-XML) ways or strip it.
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My idea is that OmegaT should not require the user to do anything 
when the TMX they want to import has been created by another tool 
(besides for filing a bug there). So OmegaT should silently dump the 
faulty TU or even better, simply ignore the faulty character.

OmegaT should not act as an XML valitator...

JC

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