Format Overview

• The following screenshot provides an overview of the input file contents.

  

  Input File format

• Translation inputs are categorized into multiple sections.

• Currently supported sections: Files, Parts, Results, Steps

• Sections are made of data.

• Each line can be a section, data, a continuation line or a comment.

• Section lines start with *, data lines start with - and continuation lines start with ,.

• Everything else is considered as a comment and is ignored.

• A section can’t appear more than once in an input file.

• The following examples show various parts of a section/data line.

  

  Line Syntax

• The following screenshot shows a few examples.

  

  Line format

• Sections and data lines need to specify the name.

• Data lines for a some sections (STEP section) need the values to be specified along with the data name.

• Both sections and data lines are made of attributes separated by , characters.

• Attribute is of the form <attribute_name>=<attribute_value>.

• Attribute value is optional in many cases. If attribute value is not specified, the default value is used.

• If user needs to specify a list of values for any key, the user needs to specify them in quotes and using , as separator.

• All the keywords (name, value, attribute name and attribute value) are case insensitive, except for the file names.