Available formats for exporting term database entries
When you export term database entries, you can choose between multiple formats such as Delimited File: Simple Format, CSV: Advanced Format, MultiTerm 5, or TBX.
Delimited File: Simple Format
A file containing entries in a simple grid format, with a column for each language or attribute and a row for each term entry. A header row is required. These files can have .csv or .txt extensions.
- The columns correspond to the locales and term entry attributes of the term database being exported. Standard term entry attributes such as Created By or Modified On are included.
- The column headers are the WorldServer locale names and term entry attribute names, as appropriate.
- Attributes for the individual terms are not exported due to the export format.
CSV
There is no formal, internationally recognized standard for the CSV format. Because of this, RWS uses the de facto standard developed by Microsoft. You can find a description of the CSV format here. You can also find more information about the conventions or rules applicable to CSV records here.
- In Simple CSV format, each row is a term entry. Columns might contain locale instances (terms) for the term entry. Other columns might contain values for term entry attributes.
- In Advanced CSV format, each row contains a locale instance (a term) for an entry, with columns for the language, the term, and each attribute. An entry, therefore, contains multiple rows, one for each term in the entry.
MultiTerm 5
Term database entries that you can export from WorldServer and import into a MultiTerm 5 termbase.
TBX
A file in TBX (TermBase eXchange) format.
- Term entry attributes are exported as
descripdata categories. - Term attributes are exported as
termNotedata categories. - Selector attributes have their permitted values exported as
picklistvalues. - All other attributes are plain text.
WorldServer uses the default XCS file to identify which data category element to export to a standard TBX data category. For example, it knows that an attribute named administrativeStatus is a termNote data category and an attribute named context is a descrip data category.