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Cannot open xliff files from RISE
Hello,
I want to translate my course and am following the steps recommended, but I can't open the xliff file that was generated. I want to translate it myself and understood that it would download in some type of chart form. What should my next step be? Thanks for any help you can provide.
Rachel
An Cliff needs specialist software to use properly you can open in notepad or a text editor.
Thanks very much for your reply, Phil. So if I translate it in notepad,
will I be able to plug it back in easily? Or would it be easier to just
manually change the text in the duplicate course?I also saw something called smartcat, which claims that it will open the
file, translate it and allow me to make edits. Do you know if this is
worthwhile?Thank you!
Rachel
Hello Rachel -
Translating a Rise 360 XLIFF file by hand is a bit tricky for several reasons:
- The XLIFF file coming from Rise 360 doesn't use white space so everything will appear to be on one line when opening in Notepad
- You can't simply overwrite the source language with the translate language - instead, you have to duplicate the <source> tags and change it to <target> and place the translation in the <target> tags
- The HTML tags added by Rise adds more complexity - these are important to have so the same formatting is kept as the original course
So, the short answer is yes, it can be done by hand, but there would be a lot of trial and error on your part. If you want to explore this further, you can rename the extension from .xlf to .xml and then use something like Notepad+ which can work with these types of files (XLIFF follows the XML format).
As for Smarcat, personally I haven't used it before but if they have a trial version it wouldn't hurt to try it. I have some other ideas if you would like to reach out to me via direct message.
Thanks very much, Thor! That was very helpful.
I just remembered... an XML Formatter (https://jsonformatter.org/xml-formatter) makes this much easier. No need to upload as you can simply copy and paste on the left-hand side to get a "properly formatted" output.
Thanks so much for that suggestion! I'll check it out!
Hi,
You can use Swordfish IV to translate XLIFF from Articulate RISE. It handles RISE XLIFF without problems. With Swordfish you can store your translations in a memory and reuse them later when you update your courses.
