LRM resx Support

The .resx resource file format consists of XML entries, which specify objects and strings inside XML tags. LRM supports .resx files. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ekyft91f(v=vs.100).aspx .

Locale File Extensions

• The resx files follow this naming convention: filename.<language>.resx or filename.<language>-<country>.resx. For example, resources.resx or resources.en.resx for a base file, resources.fr.resx or resources.fr-FR.resx, etc.
• If you can, avoid duplicate file names. Duplications incur more prep kits than necessary.

What is resx files encoding?

.Net resx files must be UTF-8 encoded, as per the resx schema, Hence, on-boarding resx resource files with LRM must specify the UTF-8 encoding:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
    <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xsd:element name="data">
     <xsd:complexType>
           <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"
                    msdata:Ordinal="2" />
            </xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
                <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
                <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
      </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

Example of .resx Files or a file extension that uses the xml parser type and the ResxParser.xml definition

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <root>
    <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata" id="root">
        <xsd:element msdata:IsDataSet="true" name="root">
            <xsd:complexType>
                <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
                    <xsd:element name="data">
                        <xsd:complexType>
                            <xsd:sequence>
                                <xsd:element minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" name="value" type="xsd:string" />
                                <xsd:element minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" name="comment" type="xsd:string" />
                            </xsd:sequence>
                            <xsd:attribute msdata:Ordinal="1" name="name" type="xsd:string" />
                            <xsd:attribute msdata:Ordinal="3" name="type" type="xsd:string" />
                            <xsd:attribute msdata:Ordinal="4" name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
                        </xsd:complexType>
                    </xsd:element>
                    <xsd:element name="resheader">
                        <xsd:complexType>
                            <xsd:sequence>
                                <xsd:element minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" name="value" type="xsd:string" />
                            </xsd:sequence>
                            <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
                        </xsd:complexType>
                    </xsd:element>
                </xsd:choice>
            </xsd:complexType>
        </xsd:element>
    </xsd:schema>
    <resheader name="resmimetype">
        <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
    </resheader>
    <resheader name="version">
        <value>1.3</value>
    </resheader>
    <resheader name="reader">
        <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
    </resheader>
    <resheader name="writer">
        <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
    </resheader>
    <data name="CARO_CAROPTI_100" xml:space="preserve"><value>Car Option</value></data>
    <data name="COMM_THISSHO_1" xml:space="preserve"><value>this should be detected</value></data>
  </root>

xml parser type using ResxParser.xml format definition

valid resx syntax

Files that use the xml parser and the ResxParser.xml format definition are expected to have valid resx syntax

.resx uses the xml parser type

When defining a project containing LRM Standard .resx resource files, there is no need to define a <parser-type> as the xml parser will always be used along with the ResxParser.xml format definition.

unique file extension needs to define xml parser type and copy over the ResxParser.xml format definition

If a unique file extension is a valid resx file, then:

• In the Project definition xml file, <parser-type> should be xml
• After creating the project
  • Copy over the ResxParser.xml format definition located in ../lrm-server-<x.x>/samples/XmlParserExamples into the ../L10nStreamlining/<group>/projects/<project>/config folder
  • Rename file ResxParser.xml to xmlParser.xml

Sample LRM Project Definition File for .resx

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <lrmconf>
  <model-version>1.0.0</model-version>
  <project-name>WinApp</project-name>
       <project-desc>Lingoport.WinApp is configured to support resx resource files</project-desc>
 <group-name>Lingoport</group-name>
 <top-level-dir>/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/Lingoport.WinApp/workspace</top-level-dir>
 <detect-errors>
   <missed-trans-error>0</missed-trans-error>
   <parameter-mismatch-error>1</parameter-mismatch-error>
 </detect-errors>
 <track-back-locale>br</track-back-locale>
 <pseudo-locale>eo</pseudo-locale>
 <target-locales>
   <locale>de</locale>
   <locale>fr</locale>
   <locale>ja</locale>
 </target-locales>
 <default-locale>en_US</default-locale>
 <resource-extensions>
    <resource-extension>
     <!-- parser-type not needed since .resx is a standard LRM extension that maps to the xml parser type -->
     <extension>resx</extension>
     <file-name-pattern>*.l-c-v</file-name-pattern>
     <use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>0</use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>                
     <file-location-pattern></file-location-pattern>
     <use-location-pattern-on-dflt-locale>0</use-location-pattern-on-dflt-locale>
     <base-file-encoding>UTF-8</base-file-encoding>
     <localized-file-encoding>UTF-8</localized-file-encoding>
     <parameter-regex-pattern><![CDATA[%[ds]|%\d+\$[ds]|%\{\w+\}]]></parameter-regex-pattern>
   </resource-extension>
   <resource-extension>
     <!-- parser-type is required because .myext is not a standard LRM extension -->
     <extension>myext</extension>
     <!-- Once the project is created, the ResxParser.xml, located in the samples/XmlParserExamples, 
       needs to copied over the project's config folder and renamed xmlParser.xml  -->
     <parser-type>xml</parser-type>
     <file-name-pattern>*.l-c-v</file-name-pattern>
     <use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>0</use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>                
     <file-location-pattern></file-location-pattern>
     <use-location-pattern-on-dflt-locale>0</use-location-pattern-on-dflt-locale>
     <base-file-encoding>UTF-8</base-file-encoding>
     <localized-file-encoding>UTF-8</localized-file-encoding>
     <parameter-regex-pattern><![CDATA[%[ds]|%\d+\$[ds]|%\{\w+\}]]></parameter-regex-pattern>
   </resource-extension>
 </resource-extensions>
 <dirset>
   <includes>
     <include-dir-file>**/**</include-dir-file>
   </includes>
    <excludes>
     <exclude-dir-file>**/source/bin/**</exclude-dir-file>
   </excludes>
 </dirset>
 </lrmconf>