Subtitle Edit - American to British xml local file

[naszdom]

Can anyone help on the format I should use for this file in the Subtitle Edit plugin
I have tried
<Word American="dumb" British="stupid" />
as suggested by google but then I get the error message
There are multiple root elements. Line3, position2.

[fred_abila]

That error is from the XML file itself, not from your Word line.

<Word American="dumb" British="stupid" /> is fine as an entry, but an XML document can only have one root element. If the file is just several <Word ... /> lines (or a declaration plus a bare <Word>), parsers report "multiple root elements."

Wrap every entry in a single parent. For Subtitle Edit's American to British word list that looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Words>
<Word American="dumb" British="stupid" />
<Word American="color" British="colour" />
</Words>

Save as UTF-8 (not UTF-16) with a .xml extension, then point the plugin/dictionary path at that file again.

Also check:
- No second <?xml ...?> later in the file
- No leftover HTML or markdown around the tags
- Attribute quotes are straight " not curly quotes from a word processor

After it loads, run a tiny test subtitle with "color"/"dumb" and confirm Tools / Change spelling / American to British picks up your custom pair. If SE still rejects the file, paste the first ~10 lines and which exact menu you load the XML from.

[naszdom]

Thanks a lot Fred. It works. I hope whoever else in the future has this problem can find this thread.