Striping out html tags from translation string?

Hi,

I'm playing with the i18n stuff and I have succeed with some things, but now 
I have a particular problem. Suppose that you want to translate this:

<div i18n:translate="" i18n:domain="JMGeneric">optional fields are written 
in <i>italic</i></div>

I added the following string to my message catalogs:
"optional fields are written in italic"

But the translation didn't succeed because of the <i></i> tags, which I 
don't want to add the my message catalog.

I know you could also have mappings:
"optional fields are written in ${tag1}italic${tag2}"

but it is even more complicated than just including <i>...</i>
Is it possible to strip the html characters when sending the string to the 
i18n workspace? I think it would be usefull when translated long html 
formated texts.

Thanks in advanced,
Josef

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