Garbage in Save Target XML files

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I have a series of XML files that open file in Trados Studio. But when I save as target it saves the file with markup garbage text. Here is a sample: 
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 These files are to be imported into Wordpress, but as is they do not import correctly. How do I save the files without the markup garbage? Thanks in advance for your help. 
 PS I tried to use difference encoding formats but the result is the same every time.

Paul · Answer

davegrun 
 Well, it's not garbage and most processers should be able to interpret this correctly. But, if you want help with this it would be useful if you shared a small snippet of code (not a screenshot!) of the source file itself. Then we "might" be able to help.

Paul · Answer

davegrun 
 davegrun said: I am also not sure what you mean by spending time and pushing back. 
 In order to test something for you when you request help anyone looking at this will have to create a well formed xml file to test. You only gave a snippet from the middle of the file and even that didn't have a proper start and end. So if I (for example) try to work with this I first have to work through it to try and create a proper well formed xml file andthen test. And if I do that it might not be the same situation you find yourself in. 
 The community is not a place for guaranteed support. If you want that you should purchase a support contract. Otherwise you are reliant on the goodwill of others and this includes RWS staff who do try to help and you may not have noticed but often do this in their own time outside of their normal working hours. I was on leave for 4-days in this thread and I imagine the only reason you didn't get more help is because of the effort involved in trying to help you. 
 That's what I meant. You need to make it easy for people to take time out of their own day to help you. 
 davegrun said: This ahs become an urgent matter and I would appreciate help. 
 Guaranteed support... 
 Anyway. I think your problem is related to the fact that these Wordpress files are not really very easy to handle. The CDATA sections are comprised of plain text and html... for example: 
 
 It starts with text, then some html, then text etc. If you used the html embedded content processor, and I imagine you did, then the html entity conversion will be handled as you expect. But the txt will not, so you end up with this: 
 
 davegrun said: I tried to use difference encoding formats but the result is the same every time. 
 Yes, and this is because the problem is not encoding. It's not garbage they are just html entities. If Wordpress cannot handle this then you need to tackle the files a different way. So I used the txt embedded content processor instead of the html and created my own rules. With the sample you gave me it was fairly straightforward and I can achieve this sort of thing in the editor (pseudo-ranslated): 
 
 Then when I save the target file I see this: 
 
 Apart from the nonsense German I think it's what you wanted? 
 So I used this... 
 Simple parser rule for my test: 
 
 Processed the embedded content with a custom txt filetype called DG_1: 
 
 Custom filetype had one simple rule for my test: 
 
 I filtered out the script in the file like this with a simple regex: 
 
 And pseudo-translated, then saved the target. 
 I hope that helps?

Paul · Answer

davegrun 
 Just go to the Embedded Content processors as I showed in the screenshot, copy the "Plain Text" and rename the copy as DG_1. Then just use that embedded content processor to handle the embedded content... also in my screenshot. 
 If I send you my filetype settings you probably still won't know what to do with them based on your reply. So I think it makes sense for you to create this yourself. I only used one very simple rule for this anyway so I'm pretty sure that you'll have to enhance it for your real files.

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