Background of the issue:
I am working on a site under development and trying to exclude specific block content, such as code and picture/image tags, from XLIFF files. I can provide an XLIFF file for reference, but I believe discussing it live would be more efficient.
Symptoms:
I couldn't find specific documentation on how to exclude block content from XLIFF files.
Questions:
How can I exclude specific block content from XLIFF files?
As far as I understand, we the ATE can exclude natively tags only content, but WPML doesn't offer any tool to exclude them for an XLIFF export.
Am I right?
For my translator, working with an online translation tool is a no go.
AI tools suggest this kind of solutions:
add_filter('wpml_translate_single_string', 'exclude_html_tags_from_translation', 10, 5);
function exclude_html_tags_from_translation($translation, $original_value, $string_context, $domain, $language_code) {
// Vérifie si la chaîne contient des balises HTML
if (preg_match('/<[^>]+>/i', $original_value)) {
return $original_value; // Retourne la chaîne originale sans traduction
}
return $translation;
}
Would such a piece of code prevent to reimport the content properly?
Or is it something that can be set on the CAT tool?
While you wait for my colleague to take over the ticket, let me try to help you with the issue quickly.
You mentioned the blocks, so I guess these are custom blocks or if not they would need to have XML rules for WPML to know what part to translate. In that XML file you can set which part of the block is translatable by including it in the XML rule or not.
Actually, our translator's CAT tools seems a bit more evolved than the POedit I tested my file with. His editor seems to exclude / hide the code and image blocks. So that's ont an issue for them to work with pour XLIFF, without further configuration.
Still, I'll remember your advise in case I encounter more difficulties regarding these fields in the future.
