Google Translation API

Question

I have text that I would like to translate into Russian. The text has custom tags and has multiple <BR> tags. The API behaves oddly with <BR> tags. Are there known issues with <BR> tags? Is there a way around it or what is the best way to use Google JQuery tranlsation to translate the text?

The text is

<INPUTANSWER PARTID='1'>
  <SPAN STYLE="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>
  Place a <STRONG>90 degree</STRONG> explicit angle constraint to the inside 
  faces of <STRONG>DP-1007:1 </STRONG>and<STRONG>DP-1006:1</STRONG> as shown.</P>
  <P STYLE="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in">
  2.
  <SPAN STYLE="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN>
  Drive this angle constraint between <STRONG>90 and 100 degrees</STRONG>
  with an <STRONG>increment</STRONG> <STRONG>of 0.125 degrees.</STRONG>
</INPUTANSWER>

Answer 1

check this. Its the jquery translate project. I've used it before with normal text, never tried markup but quoting their home page

It also reduces the number of requests by concatenating elements and doesn't send unnecessary html markup still providing access to each element as they've got translated.

If this doesn't work you can always hold on to the original document fragment and just walk it, translate content and replace. I am sure this will work as the API behaved perfectly with plain text.