Transform and translate content

Jiri Lojda, Ondrej Chrastina

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Let’s take a look at the approaches you can take to maintain the original structure of your rich text elements in the translated texts.

Rich text elements might contain images, linked items, components, and formatted text. You need to convert the rich text elements into a format that preserves the information about the position of linked items or images used in the rich text.Also, make sure to transform the translation unit into a format supported by your TMS, for example, JSON or XLIFF. Insert placeholders that are not supposed to be translated into the text and then use the placeholders to insert the references back into the translated text.

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Split the rich text using references into text chunks and encode the references that should be between them as translation keys or metadata of those chunks.

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Doesn’t require special placeholders in the text.	More challenging to implement than placeholders. The rich text element is split into multiple chunks, which might be more difficult to translate for the TMS, especially for human translators.

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A. Insert placeholders in the rich text content

B. Split the rich text using references

For example, you can use a slight modification of XPath to encode a place of each text chunk in a JSON and use an empty string as a value for keys pointing to a reference.

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