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TMX: What is the use of tuid="1"?
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What is the use of the TUID in TMX files?
 
Samuel Murray
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CafeTran Trainer wrote:
What is the use of the TUID in TMX files?

Quoting from the TMX specification:
Translation unit identifier - Specifies an identifier for the element. Its value is not defined by the standard (it could be unique or not, numeric or alphanumeric, etc.).
In other words, it is a bit of code that the program that creates or edits the TMX file can customize while the TMX file remains well-formed despite the customization.
 
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Samuel Murray wrote:

CafeTran Trainer wrote:
What is the use of the TUID in TMX files?

Quoting from the TMX specification:
Translation unit identifier - Specifies an identifier for the element. Its value is not defined by the standard (it could be unique or not, numeric or alphanumeric, etc.).
In other words, it is a bit of code that the program that creates or edits the TMX file can customize while the TMX file remains well-formed despite the customization.



I've read that, too. But since (a) these TUIDs are not necessary and (b) they are often not numbered consecutively, I was wondering: what's the use of them, e.g. in CAT tools?
 
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CafeTran Trainer wrote:

I've read that, too. But since (a) these TUIDs are not necessary and (b) they are often not numbered consecutively, I was wondering: what's the use of them, e.g. in CAT tools?


The attribute is used to associate a segment from the source document with the entry in a TM. It's value doesn't have to be a number, it should provide a mapping between source document and TM.

CAT tools use the attribute to extract ICE (In-Context Exact) matches from the TM, and also to adjust the TM when a translation is changed so that you don't have incorrect translations in memory.

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