What is XLIFF file : Working with XLIFF file in oracle Cloud BIP reports

What is XLIFF file : Working with XLIFF file

In this post , we will discuss about XLIFF file. This XLIFF file helps to generate the multi language BIP report in oracle cloud. We will learn about XLIFF file and how we can make changes in this file to generate the multi language report in oracle fusion.

 

XLIFF is the XML Localization Interchange File Format.

It is the standard format used by localization providers. For more information about the XLIFF specification

 XLIFF file has this below structure.

 

 

The following illustration shows an excerpt from an untranslated XLIFF file.

 

The <file> element includes the attributes source-language and target-language.

 

The valid value for source-language and target-language is a combination of the language code

 The Valid Values for English code is as below.

 

 

 

Some templates contain placeholders for data fields embedded in the text display strings of the report. To identify the embedded data fields use this token.

For example, the title of the sample report is: Italian Purchase VAT Register - (year)

where (year) is a placeholder in the RTF template that is populated at runtime by data from an XML element. These fields are not translatable, because the value comes from the data at runtime.

To identify embedded data fields, the following token is used in the XLIFF file:

[&n]

where n represents the numbered occurrence of a data field in the template.

For example, in the preceding XLIFF sample, the first translatable string is:

Each <source> element contains a translatable string from the template in the source language of the template. Refer to the illustration for information to create a translation for a source element string.

For example,

<source>Total</source>

When you initially export the XLIFF file for translation, the source and target elements are all identical. To create the translation for this template, enter the appropriate translation for each source element string in its corresponding <target> element.

Therefore if you were translating the sample template into German, you would enter the following for the Total string: