The display text format
DT-XML format is an XML file specification from Across Systems which is used for the integrated display text solution. This document type allows translating display texts with customized TrueTypeFonts in crossWeb. It offers a WYSIWYG representation of the dimensions of the text boxes in its real font. Also it qualifies if the text fits into its box or not.
During check-in to the Across Language Server, the DTXML files are validated based on an integrated XML schema. This article describes this schema and helps you to create valid DTXML files to translate your own display texts in crossWeb.
The DT-XML schema
There are different versions of the schema:
Version | Across version | Date | Changes |
v1 | ≥ v5.7 | Creation and initial content | |
v2 | ≥ v5.7 | Nov. 2013 | New element lines is introduced to describe displays with variable lines length. lines element has a higher priority as width and height elements. If it's defined width and height are ignored. |
v3 | ≥ v6.0 | Apr. 2014 | New element protectedText is introduced to protect a part of text (term/name etc.) from changes during translation. |
v4 | ≥ v6.3 | Aug. 2014 | Kerning and DPI settings are supported for displays. Rendering engine (validator) can be specified for a display. |
v5 | ≥ v6.3 | Mar. 2017 | Comments are replaced to multiple comments with simple formatting. User can use xdata tag to store its own data. Possibility to store preview images. It is possible to create Display Texts packages (.dtx) |
Current schema
You can download the current DT-XML schema here: DT-XML v5.
We recommend to use e.g. Visual Studio for DT-XML validation. Some tools may not be able to process rules defined via regular expressions.
