Workflow / new/empty translations

[ytsurk]

When I start a new project, and use the extracted file (with ng extract-i18n) as template for my locales (I added also the trgLang), t9n wont start until I deleted all <units> or added them empty <target> nodes.

Failed to serialize target files
[Nest] 34132 - 03.03.2023, 14:37:47 ERROR [ExceptionHandler] Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'textContent')
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'textContent')
at Xlf2Deserializer._convertToString (C:\ws\zvs-vertragsmanager-web\node_modules\angular-t9n\server\index.js:945:19)
at Xlf2Deserializer._extractTarget (C:\ws\zvs-vertragsmanager-web\node_modules\angular-t9n\server\index.js:1124:21)
at Xlf2Deserializer._deserializeTargetUnit (C:\ws\zvs-vertragsmanager-web\node_modules\angular-t9n\server\index.js:1101:26)
at C:\ws\zvs-vertragsmanager-web\node_modules\angular-t9n\server\index.js:1084:30

You also can reproduce this, if you delete one <target> node in a messages.xx_YY.xlf file.

Further - as soon as I start t9n, all my translations will get empty <target> nodes, which seems quite bad to me.
As long as I do not provide translations, running my app in the non source locale will display emptiness...
Is this the desired behavior? How can I mark translations as no availabe?

[fritteli]

We're also affected by this issue. Particularly, the empty <target/> tags with the resulting display of no text at all tags hurt.

Are there any plans to do something about it?

[kyubisation]

Not at the time, as this project has quite low priority.
Feel free to contribute the necessary changes, if this is an urgent topic.

[cloakedch]

The changes in #50 would solve our use case, but there might still be work left to do (XLFSerializer and XLFDeserializer, which I didn't touch). Also there are no tests in it.