XLIF Files has content that does not belong

this can happen if you maybe had a block that was a Heading and paragraph and changed it to a heading only, the other text is still remembered.

Hi Phil, 

Is this a bug in Rise? 

This will cause a lot of translation issues if there is leftover text in the XLIFF that does not need to be translated. 

When building a course it is very common to test a block, delete it, add a new block, enter some text, format, change, delete, add new text.  If all the original text and edits remain as part of the XLIFF ( which in our experience, is happening) then I will have translation source files that have a lot of necessary items to translate. 

Is there a best practice when building a course so as not to have this extra text in the code? 

Not really a bug, adding and removing blocks will not do it, but if you switch a blocks format without removing text it will still be there.

I think it also happens in Flashcards if you put text in and switch to an image

Thanks Phil.  So does this mean we need to very sure and clean about how we enter content at the risk of having unwanted content in the XLIF code? 

Yes, if you know translations are part of the project try and be a bit cleaner in production, that said Rise does not help as a lot of the content is prepopulated and I have seen requests for a filter to be applied to see when any of it has been left in ( I have left a text block in with content in a communication course and never noticed and it is embarrassing).

We can do some of it and I hope Articulate make the export better and not include invisible text.

Thanks Phil.  I think I will raise this as an issue with Articulate.  Maybe they have a fix planned. 

I am now experiencing this issue. @Terranova 1, Did Articulate ever reply when you reported it?