Yum! Restaurant International approached Alafranga with a large-scale XML localisation project requiring delivery within a tight deadline — with the work arriving towards the end of the year, when capacity constraints are typically at their highest.

Approximately 400,000 words of XML content delivered under a tight year-end deadline — assembled, configured, translated, revised, and delivered as a single coordinated operation.

The content was structured XML — not a straightforward document format. XML localisation requires a specifically configured translation environment to handle tags, attributes, and string structures correctly. A generic CAT tool setup would have introduced errors at the file level before a single word was translated.

▮How It Was Delivered

 

• Team assembly
  Alafranga assembled a team of four to five specialist translators rapidly — selected for both linguistic quality and familiarity with SDL Trados Studio's collaborative workflow environment.

• Shared TM infrastructure
  All translators were connected to a single shared Translation Memory in SDL Trados Studio. This meant every segment translated by one linguist was immediately available to the rest of the team — eliminating duplication, enforcing consistency, and maximising the leverage of repeated strings across the file set.
  
  
• Custom XML configuration
  Because the source files were XML, standard CAT tool settings would not have handled the file structure correctly. Alafranga commissioned a custom XML configuration from a specialist SDL Trados contact at Transperfect — paying for this directly — to ensure the files were parsed, segmented, and delivered without structural errors.
  
  
• Quality control
  Speed did not replace process. A structured revision and quality control workflow ran alongside translation — ensuring that the final delivery met Alafranga's standard output requirements despite the compressed timeline.