We are using Angular's build in tools to extract messages from templates.
This works fine and we are getting all the information in a XLIFF file using:
ng xi18n
In this file a trans-unit looks like this:
<trans-unit id="3535a6c8296b457542000d2cbd15ca93f86cdd79" datatype="html">
<source>Homepage</source>
<context-group purpose="location">
<context context-type="sourcefile">app/component/nav/nav.component.html</context>
<context context-type="linenumber">39</context>
</context-group>
<note priority="1" from="description">description</note>
<note priority="1" from="meaning">title</note>
</trans-unit>
Even though the content in <context-group purpose="location"> looks interesting, it exploids project and implementation details to an external translation service.
Is there a way to tell Angular to not include these information into the XLIFF-file?
Alternatively, are there other tools, that could do the transformation? Maybe it's important for the compiler to have that information during a build.
You should not delete those, as Angular needs it to translate.
But if it's what you want, you can use a JS script to remove them :
const fs = require('fs');
const data = fs.readFileSync('./i18n.xliff').toString();
const contentToRemoveRegexp = /<context-group purpose="location">([.\s\S])*<\/context-group>/g;
const replaced = data.replace(contentToRemoveRegexp, '');
fs.writeFileSync('./i18n-updated.xliff', replaced);
store it in whichever JS file you want and make a script in your package file :
"i18n:update": "ng xi18n && node path/to/your/script/js"