Human-readable text that is appropriate for a particular language. TranslatedText elements typically occur in a series, presenting a set of alternative textual renditions for different languages and types.
To find the text appropriate for a target language with tag LT, search for a TranslatedText element whose xml:lang attribute matches LT exactly (ignoring case). If that fails, remove the ending subtag from LT and repeat. If that fails, search for a TranslatedText without an xml:lang attribute and use that. If none is found, there is no suitable text available. E.g.
| TranslatedTexts Present | Requested | Process |
| <TranslatedText xml:lang="fr-CA">... <TranslatedText xml:lang="en-GB">... <TranslatedText>... | fr-FR | Look for xml:lang="fr-FR". This is not found, so look for xml:lang="fr". This is not found, so look for a TranslatedText with no xml:lang. This is the text that should be used. |
For type="application/xhtml+xml" it is possible to use HTML tags for text formatting. Value of the TranslatedText element must be always wrapped in <div> tag with non-whitespace content within it. The <div> must have a proper namespace specified: <div xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/>
Note that the XHTML is contained in general XML so there is no support for HTML entities like or © etc. Unicode characters shall be used instead. Unicode   substitutes for .
The content should be in the language of the TranslatedText element (xml:lang), but there is no reason to expect that HTML type tooling would understand the TranslatedText element language. For this reason, it is a good practice to use a lang attribute on the <div> (see the note in the HTML 5 specification about use of language 
).
A base minimum set of HTML tags which needs to be supported for ODM conformance:
The following example shows a TranslatedText element with both plain text and an enhanced presentation with a limited number of HTML tags.