Translation Memory eXchange


Translation Memory eXchange is an XML specification for the exchange of translation memory data between computer-aided translation and localization tools with little or no loss of critical data.
TMX was originally developed and maintained by OSCAR, a special interest group of LISA, and first released in 1997. The current version of the specification is 1.4b and allows for the recreation of the original source and target documents from the TMX data. A working draft of TMX 2.0 was released for public comment in March 2007 but no work on the new version has been done since. In March 2011 LISA was declared insolvent and as a result its standards were moved under a Creative Commons license and the standards specification relocated.
TMX forms part of the Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization reference architecture.

Example

An example of a TMX document with one entry:


creationtool="XYZTool" creationtoolversion="1.01-023"
datatype="PlainText" segtype="sentence"
adminlang="en-us" srclang="en"
o-tmf="ABCTransMem"/>



Hello world!


Bonjour tout le monde!