CafeTran

Here's a workaround to process Tracked Changes in SDLXLIFF files.

As a Mac user, you can use the attached text factory for BBEdit. Place it in the appropriate folder:

and call it via this command:

Users of other operating system can use any editor that supports regular expressions.

The relevant replacement strings are:

(\<mrk mtype="x-sdl-added" sdl:revid="\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+"\>)(.*?)(\<\/mrk\>)
{add}\2{/add}

(\<mrk mtype="x-sdl-deleted" sdl:revid="\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+"\>)(.*?)(\<\/mrk\>)
{del}\2{/del}

 (case-sensitive, greb/regex selected)

Run these replacements on the SDLXLIFF file that contains tracked changes.

Open the file in CafeTran Espresso.

Filter on:

\{\/?(add|del)\}

 with the Regex checkbox ticked.

Make the appropriate modifications.

Remove all added markup, e.g. by replacing the regular expression above with nothing.

BTW: You can also use a regular expression to delete all text between the del and /del markup.

Use at your own risk and always make a backup of the SDLXLIFF file.

Delete all tracked deletions in one run (if you dare):

Since colour marking of non-translatables only works in the Source Segment Editor, it's not possible to colour the {add} and {del} markups like this:

Or with Unicode brackets, e.g.:

⦊het⦉⁅de⁆