How do I handle xml files from the CMS Tridion?

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One of our clients sent us a XML file from the cms Tridion. Is there a way to translate these files and handle the tags and embedded content properly without having to come up with regex ourselves? 
 
 Please see a screenshot below of what part of the text looks like right now in SDL Studio 2019.

Daniel Hug · Accepted Answer

From what I can see you extract the and <content> elements. Most of the text you copied is HTML formatting, so you will have to use a custom XML file type with embedded HTML content processor. You should not need to use any Regex here, just Xpath to describe what you want to translate, but really, you just need to know the name of the elements you want to use: Daniel

Daniel Hug · Answer

Anthoinette van Winkoop 
 Adding to what Evzen Polenka pointed out, XML is very flexible. That's both glory and misery - you will have to adapt your custom XML file type (surely with embedded HTML processor in your case) to suit your customer's implementation of their CMS. I never had anything to do with Tridion, but I am almost 100% certain that the localizable fields will vary from implementation to implementation and again within the CMS from item to item. Best would be if your customer could tell you what they want translated (Title, Content, Author, Metadata fields etc.) 
 It's a bit of a learing curve, but I found these tutorials easy to understand: 
 https://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp 
 https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_intro.asp 
 Daniel

Paul · Answer

Hi Anthoinette van Winkoop 
 Tridion XML should be ITS ( https://www.w3.org/International/its/ig/Overview ) which means it should open automagically in Studio without you having to anything. But like anything the exports are probably customisable so if you need to do something to get at your translatable text it mimght be worth chatting to whoever prepared the files and sent them to you.

Daniel Hug · Answer

Hi Anthoinette van Winkoop 
 I can't get your screenshot to display bigger than thumbnail size. 
 Daniel

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