HTML tags in TXT file.

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• November 09, 2016 12:01

Problem:

user has HTML tags in TXT files and would like to parse the files correctly having tags locked and not counted as translatable text.

Solution:

In this case I would recommend to to change extension of the TXT files from *.txt to *.htm and process them as HTML files using native Wordbee parser for "Web pages" and after finalization change the extension of the files back to *.txt.

Note: in case you have thousands of files to be renamed you can use ren function. Once you are in the desired folder where your files are you can just write a command ren *.txt *.htm and all extensions will be changed to *.htm.

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  Robbert Wethmar

  • November 10, 2016 09:03

  solution above is easiest.

  alternative would be to define regexps for the tags. That is risky, especially if number of tags and attributes grows. I did it successfully for some clients that only use <i>, <b> and some <Hx> tags in .txt files.

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  Wojciech Mocek

  • November 10, 2016 10:08

  Really? In Plain Text parser I can only exclude the whole segment if the regex is a match.

   

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  Robbert Wethmar

  • November 10, 2016 14:33

  sorry, you are right. It only works for whole segments. I remembered skipping text for .srt files (https://wordbee.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207476598-Support-for-srt-files?page=1#community_comment_221859507..) but there we skipped whole segments...

  So back to the rename solution ;-)

   

  funny to see a feature request for just this today:

  https://wordbee.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/114096479293-Word-or-text-exclusion-in-plain-text-file-parser?page=1#community_comment_114094744714

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