Remove CDATA

[madjuju]

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[FlowMo7]

What would the use-case be to require the CDATA to be removed from the android string resources altogether?

The CDATA tag helps us to not have to escape special characters which would be interpreted by the XML parser within the string, so that while inserting translations into the spreadsheet, one would not need to escape e.g. < or > manually.

Is your use-case that you have those special characters already escaped manually in the respective localization sheet?

As this would (imho) be a breaking change, as all already existing localization sheets would need to be updated to manually escape those special characters, I would more see this as maybe a configuration option / feature flag, instead of changing the default behavior.

[madjuju]

@FlowMo7 I don't have a problem with special characters, except maybe for &
The wish to remove CDATA is that after importing into android studio the language files are unreadable by the developer team.
I maintain 25 applications in 6 languages
If you can put this option it would be very very good.

[madjuju]

BEFORE

AFTER

[mariohahn]

But if you would have a language with the need of escaping characters, you would run into an issue without the CDATA. It the google sheet not the better place to check the Strings anyway?

If you would really like to have it like that please send me a PR, where you can set Remove_CDATA as a parameter, because as @FlowMo7 mentioned, for us, it is a very important "feature" and it would be a breaking change.

[madjuju]

@mariohahn I am not competent enough to code this feature