Template Builder for Microsoft Word provides dedicated translation tools for extracting translatable text from an RTF template into an XLIFF (.xlf) file . Oracle's documented procedure is to open the template with Template Builder installed and, from the Template Builder tools, choose Translation → Extract Text . Publisher then extracts the template's translatable boilerplate strings and creates an XLIFF file.

Typical translatable strings include report titles, table headers, field labels, and static textual content intended to appear in generated output. Data supplied dynamically at runtime isn't extracted as template translation text.

The resulting XLIFF file can then be provided to a translator or edited with an XLIFF-compatible tool. After translation, it is associated with the original report template for the appropriate locale. Preview Translation is used later to test an already-created translation; it doesn't generate the initial XLIFF file. Uploading a localized RTF file represents a different localization strategy. Changing the user's report locale also doesn't perform text extraction.

Thus, Translation → Extract Text is the specific Template Builder command that creates the XLIFF translation file.

Reference Topic: Building and Formatting Reports Using Layout Editor and Template Builder — XLIFF Translation

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