IDML Merge not working

[Lav Gupta]

When I merge the IDML document using Tikal -m command, the resultant document has additional new translation units.

Steps to repro:

1) Extract XLIFF file using -x command with given filter configuration.

    java -jar tikal.jar -x file.idml -fc [e-mail]

2) Merge the generated XLIFF using -m command

    java -jar tikal.jar -m file.idml.xlf -fc [e-mail]

3) Extract XLIFF file from the output generated in step 2.

    java -jar tikal.jar -x file.out.idml -fc [e-mail]

Actual Result:

When you compare XLIFF generated in step 1 and step 3, there are few new translation units.

Expectation:

Translation units in XLIFF files in step 1 and step 3 should be identical.

Attached Files

• Sample IDML file.
• Configuration files for IDML filter
• Generated XLIFF Files
• Image showing the difference

[Chase Tingley]

I can reproduce (M30). I want to note that the new TUs the second time around are duplicates of TUs that were already present in the XLIFF that was extracted the first time. So it does look like this content was merged incorrectly and created duplicated content in the target file.

This can be confirmed by comparing the source and target files. The additional content has been inserted in Stories/Story_u21f.xml.

[ysavourel]

I have not tried the files, but looking at the configuration it has newTuOnBr.b=true, so the merge problem may be related to that option which is not really properly implemented.

[Chase Tingley]

Per Denis, fixed on the idml_filter_improvement branch by commit d88da488cb7.

[Chase Tingley]

Fixed in M34