Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Translating HTML files
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @German
[quote]German Dutch Engineering Translation wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
One problem is when the HTML contains code from another language (this is perfectly acceptable in HTML). [/quote]
Language as in 'markup language' or 'scripting language'. [/quote]
I meant "language" as in the syntax of characters that surround the human language. For this purpose, I would not distinguish between programming language, markup language and scripting language. There are valid ways to include all three such types of code within an HTML file.
For example, there may be bits of JavaScript inside an HTML file, and the JavaScript may contain translatable text, but the HTML filter of a CAT tool may not be able to extract that translatable text and may treat the entire block of JavaScript as "code" and thus untranslatable. Heck, you can even have HTML inside HTML (think CDATA...), and the CAT tool may only see the outer HTML.
Topic: Translating HTML files
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @German
[quote]German Dutch Engineering Translation wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
One problem is when the HTML contains code from another language (this is perfectly acceptable in HTML). [/quote]
Language as in 'markup language' or 'scripting language'. [/quote]
I meant "language" as in the syntax of characters that surround the human language. For this purpose, I would not distinguish between programming language, markup language and scripting language. There are valid ways to include all three such types of code within an HTML file.
For example, there may be bits of JavaScript inside an HTML file, and the JavaScript may contain translatable text, but the HTML filter of a CAT tool may not be able to extract that translatable text and may treat the entire block of JavaScript as "code" and thus untranslatable. Heck, you can even have HTML inside HTML (think CDATA...), and the CAT tool may only see the outer HTML.