Keep the entities same both in source and target files for DITA files

Question

Hello,

I have some .dita files need for translation, but the entities always be changed after translated, examples:

Source: <codeblock>ADD USER <short_username>;</codeblock>

Target: <codeblock>ADD USER <short_username>;</codeblock>

One of ">" was changed to ">" in target.

Generally I want all entities and tags are exactly same both in source and target .dita files.

Does anybody know how to solve the problem.

Thank you!

Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Rihei Li

The source you are showing looks incorrect to me, I think based on what you have here that it should be like this:

Source: <codeblock>ADD USER <short_username>;</codeblock>

Then you would have matching source and target. These brackets should be written correctly in XML to allow the parser to handle them (even if they do look wrong unless this is just a text markup).

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Keep the entities same both in source and target files for DITA files