Open
Reported for: WPML Multilingual CMS 4.6.13
Overview of the issue
When translating pages created with Elementor using WPML’s Advanced Translation Editor (ATE), characters like <
(less than) or >
(greater than) are stripped out or incorrectly interpreted as HTML tags.
Workaround
Please, make sure of having a full site backup of your site before proceeding.
- Open …/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/xliff/class-wpml-tm-xliff-writer.php file.
- Look for line 407.
- Replace:
private function remove_line_breaks_inside_tags( $string ) { return preg_replace_callback( '/(<[^>]*>)/m', array( $this, 'remove_line_breaks_inside_tag_callback' ), $string ); } /** * @param array $matches * * @return string */ private function remove_line_breaks_inside_tag_callback( array $matches ) { $tag_string = preg_replace( '/([\nr\t ]+)/', ' ', $matches[0] ); $tag_string = preg_replace( '/(<[\s]+)/', '<', $tag_string ); return preg_replace( '/([\s]+>)/', '>', $tag_string ); }
- With:
private function remove_line_breaks_inside_tags( $string ) { // Match only valid HTML tags (opening, closing, or self-closing) return preg_replace_callback( '/(<\/?[a-zA-Z][^<>]*>)/m', array( $this, 'remove_line_breaks_inside_tag_callback' ), $string ); } /** * @param array $matches * * @return string */ private function remove_line_breaks_inside_tag_callback( array $matches ) { // Remove unnecessary spaces and line breaks inside valid HTML tags $tag_string = preg_replace( '/([\nr\t ]+)/', ' ', $matches[0] ); $tag_string = preg_replace( '/(<[\s]+)/', '<', $tag_string ); return preg_replace( '/([\s]+>)/', '>', $tag_string ); }