TMX Format

Certification

This document discusses the levels and processes of the certification procedure for applications compliant to the Translation Memory eXchange format. See the TMX Specifications document for additional information.

Contents

• Compliance Definitions
• Certification Procedure

Compliance Definitions

There are three levels of implementation for TMX. The difference between the three levels concerns the representation of inline codes. For formats that have inline codes (for example HTML pages, Word documents, FrameMaker files, etc.) true interoperability starts at level 2. Implementations at Level 1 are useful only for formats without inline codes (plain text).

	The text of the segment does not contain any inline codes, all inline codes are stripped out from the segment. For example, for an original XHTML segment as follow: Some text in <b>bold</b>. The corresponding TMX segment is coded: <seg>Some text in bold.</seg>
	The text of the segment might contain inline codes. These codes are the tools-specific representation of the native inline codes. They are enclosed within TMX meta markup elements. For example, for an original XHTML segment as follow: Some text in <b>bold</b>. If a given tool represents the segment with the following codes: Some text in [#1>bold<#1]. The corresponding TMX segment is coded: <seg>Some text in <bpt i='1'>[#1></bpt>bold<ept i='1'>&lt;#1]</ept>.</seg>
	The text of the segment might contain inline codes. These codes are in the native format of the original data. They are enclosed within TMX meta-markup elements. For example, for an original XHTML segment as follow: Some text in <b>bold</b>. The corresponding TMX segment is coded: <seg>Some text in <bpt i='1'>&lt;b></bpt>bold<ept i='1'>&lt;/b></ept>.</seg>

Certification Procedure

Developers of TMX-enabled products are strongly encouraged to certify their tools for one of the compliance level. TMX^® and the TMX logo are registered trademarks of the Localisation Industry Standards Association (LISA). The use of the TMX logo is reserved to the applications that have passed the certification procedure successfully.

For any other information about TMX, contact Alan Melby or Yves Savourel.

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