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What are XLIFF and TMX ?

April 26, 2017tmx xliff

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What are XLIFF and TMX ?

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XLIFF and TMX are localisation industry-standard file formats used during the translation process. XLIFF is a container-format expressed in XML that allows us to abstract translatable from non-translatable content from a source file format, and track the various pieces of metadata that are produced during the translation process (eg. word count, notes to translators, translation review status, etc.) Once a file has been converted to XLIFF, it can be processed by any tool that understands the XLIFF format (rather than each tool needing to be customised to support the original file type). More information is available in About The XLIFF Filters. TMX is related to XLIFF, but instead of being a container format that contains the state of a file in translation, it’s a format that was designed for the interchange of completed translations, (sometimes called translation memory data) between tools. You could think of a TMX file being the final representation of a set of translated material tha