Okapi Framework - Filters

IDML Filter (ALPHA)

- Overview
- Processing Details
- Parameters

If you are using an Okapi Tool after the M9 release, you should be using the wiki online help:
http://www.opentag.com/okapi/wiki/index.php?title=IDML_Filter

Overview

The IDML Filter is an Okapi component that implements the IFilter interface for Adobe InDesign IDML documents. The filter is implemented in the class net.sf.okapi.filters.idml.IDMLFilter of the Okapi library.

This first filter is actually a wrapper that internally calls a second filter: The IDMLContentFilter is an Okapi component that implements the IFilter interface for raw IDML XML files. That filter is implement in the class net.sf.okapi.filters.idml.IDMLContentFilter of the Okapi library.

This way you can process normal IDML documents, or directly the raw Story XML documents if needed.

Processing Details

Encodings

The input encoding is automatically detected.

Any user-specified encoding is ignored by these filters. they always use UTF-8.

Line-Breaks

The type of line-breaks of the output is always set to a simple linefeed (LF).

Sub-Documents

An IDML documents is a ZIP package called UCF (Universal Container Format) and is made of many different documents inside. For example each story of the document is stored in a separate story file in the Stories sub-folder of the package.

All the different embedded files are treated as sub-documents by the filter. This means that, for example, when represented in XLIFF, a single IDML extracted to a single XLIFF document can be made up of many <file> elements.

Parameters

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