After [the release of MinT](https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/13/mint-supporting-underserved-languages-with-open-machine-translation/) we are exploring to scale the service beyond the initial use in Content Translation.
Content Translation is able to keep formatting properties such as bold text and links as text is translated, even for translation services that only support plain-text. This is possible with a specific algorithm to re-apply the formatting style to the output of a plain-text translation. This capability can be useful in a more general context with MinT (e.g., to translate documents, websites, or other rich text contents).
This ticket is focused on porting the markup transfer feature of cxserver to MinT so that rich text markup is possible in MinT instead of going through cxserver. So that we can translate arbitrary html content using MinT.
The particular case of links may need to support different ways of processing depending on the context. For example, the link target could (a) remain as it is, (b) adapt the target to the equivalent content in another language (e.g., a wikipedia article in another language), or (c) link to an MT version of the destination. Support for this can be part of future iterations on separate tickets.