translating xml - spaces deleted at end of text string before <b> bold

[vf211]

Hello, I am using this API to translate XML documents from Schema. Some of my text elements have bold sections and I use lxml.etree to parse and translate text and tail elements. The bold elements within text end up with the space removed in front of them.
Anything I can do to keep the spaces?

[daniel-jones-deepl]

Hi @vf211, thanks for creating this issue.

Can you please provide a short example? I'm assuming you're using translate_text(), do you use tag_handling?.

[vf211]

Dear Daniel, thank you so much for your quick reply. Here is an example of text from the XML file where I have a problem:

1. Tap Set Up (1).

when it translates it replaces this with translated version but takes out the gap after "Tap", like this:

1. TapSet Up (1).

Here is the code I use. The issue is when we have bold text within the text element.

import lxml.etree as ET
import deepl

file='New_project_en-US_to_it-IT.xml' #starting file that needs a translate
file2='doc2.xml' # file that it will save to
lang='IT' #languate to translate to

tree = ET.parse(file)
root = tree.getroot()

translator = deepl.Translator("53f18f3b-ba9c-...") #API key from DEEPL API

for elem in root.iter():
try:
if elem.text:
elem.text = elem.text.replace(elem.text, translator.translate_text(elem.text, target_lang=lang).text)
if elem.tail:
elem.tail = elem.tail.replace(elem.tail, translator.translate_text(elem.tail, target_lang=lang).text)
except AttributeError:
pass
except deepl.DocumentTranslationException as error:
doc_id = error.document_handle.id
doc_key = error.document_handle.key
print(f"Error after uploading document ${error}, id: ${doc_id} key: ${doc_key}")
except deepl.DeepLException as error:
print(error)

tree.write(file2)

[daniel-jones-deepl]

Hi @vf211, thanks for the reply. Please avoid exposing your authentication key in public; I've edited your post above. You should now regenerate your authentication key on your account page.

Your code looks okay.
In the line elem.text = elem.text.replace(elem.text, translator.translate_text(elem.text, target_lang=lang).text) could you share an example value of an elem.text passed to translate_text that contains the <b> elements you mentioned?
For example by adding print(elem.text) above that line.

I tried translating "Tap <b>Set Up</b> (1)" with target_lang="IT" but the result I get is "Tocca <b>Set Up</b> (1)" with a space correctly before the <b> tag.

[vf211]

Dear Daniel, thank you again for your reply.
Here is a snippet of text where the gap was also consumed in translation. This time in Lexiconlink tagging so il Raggi looks like ilRaggi.

Questo messaggio viene visualizzato quando un pacchetto raggiunge ilRaggi X rivelatore ma ilcodice a barre non viene letto.

Controllare quanto segue:

)

and this was the English that went into the code:

This message is displayed when a pack reaches the X-ray detector but the barcode is not read.

Check the following:

The alignment of the barcode scanner.

[vf211]

hi Daniel,

I added the xml tagging into the code as you suggested in your first email and that seems to have fixed our problems. Thank you so much for all your help!

[daniel-jones-deepl]

Hi @vf211, great to hear that you have fixed the problems, thanks for the update!