XML file format

Exported XML is in UTF-8 format and follows the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF)1.0 standard. It is used to define a specification for an extensible localization interchange format that will allow any software provider to produce a single interchange format that can be delivered to and understood by any localization service provider. For more information about XLIFF, see www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/.

XLIFF examples

If any of the following characters are entered in the Strings panel, they are replaced by the appropriate entity reference when written out to XML files:

Character

Replaced by

&

&

'

'

"

"

<

&lt;

>

&gt;

Exported XML file sample

The following samples show what an XML file generated by the Strings panel looks like in the source language—in this example, English—and in another language—in this example, French.