XLIFF¶

XLIFF[*] is the OASIS standard for translation.

References¶

XLIFF Standard
OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee website

Flavours¶

XLIFF also has documents that specify the conversion from various standard source documents and localisation formats.

PO – For conformance to the po2xliff spec, see xliff2po.
- Draft XLIFF 1.2 Representation Guide for Gettext PO
HTML – not implemented
- Draft XLIFF 1.2 Representation Guide for HTML
Java (includes .properties and Java resource bundles) – not implemented
- Draft XLIFF 1.2 Representation Guide for Java Resource Bundles
ICU Resource Bundles – not officially being developed by XLIFF – Proposed representation guide

Standard conformance¶

Done¶

File creation and parsing
API can create multiple files in one XLIFF (some tools only read the first file)
source-language attribute
trans-unit with
- note: addnote() and getnotes()
- state
  
  fuzzy: isfuzzy() and markfuzzy()
  
  translated: marktranslated()
  
  approved
  
  needs-review-translation: isreview(), markreviewneeded()
- id: setid()
- context-group: createcontextgroup()
context groups
alt-trans

XLIFF and other tools¶

Here is a small report on XLIFF support by Windows programs.