Google Cloud Translation API outputs HTML with syntax errors

[Pedro Cristovão]

We're using Google's Cloud Translation API on Node to translate database stored HTML blog posts to around 20 different languages. The translated HTML has a variety of seemingly random HTML syntax errors.

Any idea why this is so and what (if anything) can be done to solve this issue?

As a reference, below are the links to a blog post in English (master source) and the same post translated to Dutch:

HTML master in English

HTML translated to Dutch

Thank you in advance.

[Jose Gutierrez Paliza]

I see that your HTML is bringing a different structure when you on your source code that’s why you are seeing something like < /span>, It brings span as a text and the html brackets it brings them in ASCII code so it's bringing something like:

       -  &lt; /span&gt;

Instead of: 

      -   </span>.

Google have an optional parameter named ‘format’

This optional parameter allows you to indicate that the text to be translated is either plain-text or HTML. A value of "html" indicates HTML and a value of "text" indicates plain-text.

Use this as: format=html

https://cloud.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest