Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) is an XML specification for the exchange of translation memory (TM) data between computer-aided translation and localization tools with little or no loss of critical data. TMX was originally developed and maintained by OSCAR (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use), a special interest group of LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association), and first released in 1997. Specification 1.4b of 2005 remained current . It allows the original source and target documents to be recreated from the TMX data. A working draft of TMX 2.0 was released for public comment in March 2007 but no work was done on the new version; in March 2011 LISA was declared insolvent and as a result its standards were moved under a

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license and the standards specification relocated. TMX forms part of the Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization ( OAXAL) reference architecture.

Example

An example of a TMX document with one entry:

Hello world! Bonjour tout le monde!

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Translation Memory Exchange Computer-assisted translation XML markup languages Industry-specific XML-based standards