Guides

Reference material for people who open bilingual files for a living. Each article covers one thing properly — the structures, the attribute names, and the failure modes you meet in real projects — rather than summarising a specification you can read yourself.

XLIFF 1.2 vs XLIFF 2.0 What actually changed between the two XLIFF standards, why 1.2 still carries most CAT tool interchange, what a migration costs you, and what 2.1 added.
Inline tags explained Every inline element in XLIFF 1.2 and 2.0, what each one represents, how pairs are joined, why an editor must treat tags as atomic, and what tag soup costs you in TM leverage.
Segment states across CAT tools How XLIFF 1.2, XLIFF 2.0, SDLXLIFF and MQXLIFF each record segment status, which distinctions survive a handoff between tools and which quietly do not.
Placeholder syntaxes by framework Which frameworks emit which placeholder syntax, why QA has to treat every one of them as an untouchable token, and the specific ways they get corrupted in translation.

Nothing here needs an account or an upload. If you want to try any of it against a real file, open the editor — the file stays in your browser.