Introduction

This guide will walk you through the creation of a C# project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 for implementing a simple native verifier that works on XML documents.

The Sample Scenario

Native verifiers do not work on the intermediary (SDLXliff) files, but on the native document output. For this sample project let us imagine the following scenario:

You need to localize XML files that looks as shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<root>
  <item>
    <text>XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a general-purpose specification for creating custom markup languages.</text>
    <displaytext maxlength="35">XML (Extensible Markup Language)</displaytext>
  </item>
</root>

Note that the displaytext element contains the attribute maxlength, which specifies the maximum length of the text that is enclosed in this tag pair. Image that you need to develop a verification plug-in that checks whether the length limit specified in this attribute has been adhered to during translation.

You will find the complete Visual Studio project for this plug-in in the Sdl.Sdk.FilterFramework.Samples.XMLChecker sub-directory of the samples folder. This directory also contains a small sample XML file (XMLCheckerTestFile.xml) and a new file type definition (Length Check XML v 1.0.0.0) that uses this verification plug-in.

Introduction

The Sample Scenario

See Also

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