XML Parsing - ␍ Charater (Carriage Return)

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Hi, 
 I've got an XML file containing the carriage return character "␍" in it, and my Trados Studio 2024 parses the character as translatable text. Is there a way to parse it as an actual line break, carriage return, etc.? 
 This is what I usually see in the editor in Trados Studio: 
 
 I've tried adding a segmentation rule to the translation memory. Now the text is segmented after the character (so far, so good), but it still parses the character as translatable text: 
 
 I'va had a look at some threads in the forum but couldn't solve my issue. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! 
 sample.xml.zip

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211127 
 211127 said: I've got an XML file containing the carriage return character "␍" in it, and my Trados Studio 2024 parses the character as translatable text. 
 The problem is clear when you look at your file with a hexadecimal editor: 
 
 The bytes E2 90 8D represent the Unicode character U+240D , which is: 
 
 ␍ &mdash; Symbol for Carriage Return 
 
 This is not the actual carriage return character \r (which is 0D in hex). Rather:

0D = real carriage return , an ASCII control character.

E2 90 8D = Unicode graphic symbol that represents a carriage return in visual form.

So the easiest solution here would be to create a placeable embedded content rule set as exclude to achieve this: 
 
 To achieve it I did these things: 
 
 added some context to the VALUE parser rule: 
 Activated the embedded content rule and defined by document structure: 
 Added a placeholder rule with the cr character: 
 
 Like this I didn't need any segmentation rules on the TM, only on the custom XML filetype I created to achieve this.

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XML Parsing - ␍ Charater (Carriage Return)

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