HTML translation: finished and vanished

Question

I recently translated a html file in Trados Studio 2015, confirmed all segments, saved the target file en delivered it to my client. They just got back to me saying that upon opening the file I sent they can only see one short bit of target text. 
 I checked the target file in Firefox and Internet Explorer: they're right. 
 I also checked the source file in both Firefox and Internet Explorer and only the same short bit of (source) text is visible. 
 So, if the complete source and target texts exist in Trados, why can&rsquo;t I see them in my browsers? 
 Do you recognize this situation? 
 Do you have an explanation or a solution? 
 What do I need to do to send my client a usable html file? 
 Thanks!

Paul · Answer

Hi Joop, 
 
Perhaps there is some scripting in the html file that is not displayed in a browser? What exactly did they expect to see, what was missing? Can we see the file? I think there is really insufficient information in this question to answer it properly. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Yes... you can use the Glossary Converter for this. But you do need to make sure you understand what this means as termbases can take many forms. This article might be useful for you: 
 
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Regards 
 
Paul

Sinéad Healy · Answer

Hello, The same thing happened to me with a html file and I managed to find a workaround. After investigating in Notepad++, it looks like the source language ID in the html code was replaced by the target language ID in some cases but not all. However, in all such cases, the closing html span tag > was omitted causing the coding to break and therefore the target translation did not display in any browser. For example: GENERAL was converted as when saved via Studio. Above, English (Ireland) was my source, and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) was my intended target. As you can see, this should actually have been 一般 (with a closing > after the language code). I could not find a solution via Studio, so instead I performed a search and replace on the target html file in Notepad++ for . However, be careful that you do not break any 'style' html elements when carrying out this Find&Replace!!! For example, if you change style= , you'll break the code in those particular places. So, in summary, I had to firstly replace all . Then, to fix any style elements that were accidentally broken as a result of that Find&Replace, I had to open the target html in a browser, do a search on the page for the word "style=' to see if I had broken any style elements that were now displaying as code in the browser (there were about 10 occurrences, which was not so bad). Then, I did a quick search in Notepad++ for these broken style instances and changed any style= to

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HTML translation: finished and vanished