8.1 Definition
XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) is a XML-based standard format designed to store extracted text from software-type files and tagged documents.
XLIFF was developed at the end of 2000 by a group of companies, including Oracle, Novell, Sun and IBM/Lotus, with the aim of defining an extensible specification for the interchange of localization information. Since localisation formats can differ in structure, use of character sets, placeholders, escape sequences, formatting, etc., XLIFF was created to unify all these using a single file format, independently from specific localisation tools.